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30 Crim. Just. & Behavior 3 (2003)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv30 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD I have enjoyed working with the authors on this special issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior. The issue is a collection of manu- scripts submitted in response to a call for papers on the general topic of victimology. A considerable response was received, resulting in two special issues of peer-reviewed articles. In this first issue, articles on the topics of victimization and domestic violence are presented. The first two articles focus on sexual victimization and burglary victimiza- tion, the third on fear and risk of victimization among juvenile correc- tional officers in two juvenile corrections centers, and the last three on domestic or relationship violence. The first article addresses sexual victimization of college women. Bonnie Fisher and her colleagues use a large national sample to uncover the level and determinants of victims' willingness to report their sexual victimization. As was found in many previous studies in which victimization in general was examined, Fisher et al. report that only a low percentage of college women who are sexually victimized report these victimizations to the police. There are a variety of reasons why women do not report such incidents. What is particularly illumi- nating is that these same women will disclose the victimization to someone else (most typically to friends) but not to the police. The authors offer valid and cogent explanations for their observations, something that is often missing or not fully developed in other research articles on the topic. In the second article, George Capowich examines residential bur- glary looking for variations in burglary victimization across neighbor- hoods with different social orders. His hypothesis, derived from Bursik and Grasmick's (1993) systemic victimization model, is that there is an inverse relationship between the strength of neighborhood ecological social order and residential burglary victimization. Using CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 30 No. 1, February 2003 3-5 DOI: 10.1177/0093854802239160 0 2003 American Association for Correctional Psychology 3

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