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Adolescent online victimization [electronic resource]

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Marcum investigates Internet usage among college freshmen, their experiences with online victimization, and their relationships with online contacts. She finds that participating in online behaviors and activities that increased exposure to motivated offenders and target suitability also increased the likelihood of victimization, as well as formation of relationships with online contacts. Communicating with people met online and providing personal information over the Internet are significant predictors of the dependent variables for the entire sample, as well as for males and females when exa

Title Adolescent online victimization [electronic resource] : a test of routine activities theory / Catherine Davis Marcum.
Publisher El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub.
Creation Date 2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Introduction -- Adolescents and the age of the Internet -- The prevalence of routine activities theory -- Investigating adolescent online victimization and formation of relationships with online contacts -- Univariate and bivariate results -- Uncovering potential factors of online victimization -- Applying the findings to the future.
Series Criminal justice : recent scholarship
Extent 1 online resource (283 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010705138505171
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