Siddique Julie A
The University of North Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
J Interpers Violence. 2016 Sep;31(15):2556-75. doi: 10.1177/0886260515579507. Epub 2015 Apr 5.
By now, age and marital status are well-established correlates of criminal victimization, including adult women's sexual victimization. National crime statistics, as well as a large body of scholarly literature, have specified that younger women and unmarried women are at comparatively higher risk of sexual victimization than older women and married women. Few studies, however, have examined the relationship between age, marital status, and risk of victimization across diverse situational contexts of sexual victimization. The current study used data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to examine whether the relationship between age, marital status, and risk of sexual victimization varied across victimization experiences involving three victim-offender relationships: stranger, acquaintance, and intimate partner. Results indicate both similarities and differences in the relationship between age, marital status, and risk of victimization across these three situational contexts of victimization. As expected, age was a significant predictor of victimization in all models; however, younger women's increased risk of victimization was far more pronounced for acquaintance and intimate partner victimization experiences as compared with stranger experiences. Also, consistent with prior research, unmarried women were at higher risk of victimization in all models; however, within unmarried status categories, separated women were at highest risk of both intimate partner and acquaintance victimization experiences as compared with never married or divorced women.
到目前为止，年龄和婚姻状况是犯罪受害，包括成年女性性受害的既定相关因素。国家犯罪统计数据以及大量学术文献表明，年轻女性和未婚女性比年长女性和已婚女性遭受性侵害的风险相对更高。然而，很少有研究考察年龄、婚姻状况与不同性侵害情境下受害风险之间的关系。本研究使用了来自全国犯罪受害调查（NCVS）的数据，以检验年龄、婚姻状况与性侵害风险之间的关系在涉及三种受害者与犯罪者关系的受害经历中是否有所不同：陌生人、熟人以及亲密伴侣。结果表明，在这三种受害情境下，年龄、婚姻状况与受害风险之间的关系既有相似之处，也有不同之处。正如预期的那样，在所有模型中，年龄都是受害的一个重要预测因素；然而，与陌生人受害经历相比，但与熟人及亲密伴侣的受害经历相比，年轻女性受害风险的增加更为明显。此外，与先前的研究一致，在所有模型中，未婚女性受害的风险更高；然而，在未婚状态类别中，与从未结婚或离婚的女性相比，分居女性在亲密伴侣和熟人受害经历中受害风险最高。
