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Keeping Students Safe: Student Perceptions Of Campus Safety At A Mid-Sized Virginia University And The Impact For Prevention, Response And Risk Reduction Strategies, Elaine Roberts

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

The nexus of social factors, the college experience, and campus safety research represents an empirical gap in the literature surrounding campus safety issues. There is a need for new and creative outlooks on how to approach this culturally sensitive and complex issue(s); a need this research will begin to fulfill. This study intends to ascertain themes regarding the socially constructed reality of campus safety perceptions and concerns, of both male and female students, at a mid-sized Virginia university. A mixed methods procedure was used which included a focus group interview as well as a survey. As Kelly and Torres (2006) …