Karen G Weiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 9292033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen G Weiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen G |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiss |
| SIGNATURE | WEISS K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Discretion and the Sex Dyad
Gender has been hypothesized to affect how violent offenders are treated within the criminal justice system, but studies have tended to ignore the role of the victim in decision making. This study explores the interactive effects of offender and victim sex (i.e., the sex dyad) on reporting and arrest of one-on-one assaultive crime. Using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey and National Incident-Based Reporting System, findings show …
Normal Violence
This study examines the normalization of violence using the case of fighting on a college campus. Undergraduate participant observers witnessed 150 physical altercations (fights), and gave detailed descriptions of them. They also described their thoughts and feelings as they witnessed the fights. We identified seven distinct reactions to fighting. We then classified these reactions into one of three categories (normal, disturbed and other) and ca…
Marijuana, Gender, and Health-Related Harms
This study examines marijuana's contribution to “risky partying” and the health-related harms experienced by college students in a “party” context. Data from a self-report survey of 787 undergraduate students at a large residential university show that marijuana users are more likely than non-users to drink excessively, use other drugs and, in turn, experience health-related harms (illness, blackouts, injury from accidents, and injury from fights…
Neutralizing sexual victimization
Drawing its examples from National Crime Victimization Survey narratives, this article proposes a theoretical framework for elucidating victims’ non-reporting accounts, the rationales that victims use to justify why they do not report sexual victimization to police. The framework delineates four account types—denying criminal intent, denying serious injury, denying victim innocence, and rejecting a victim identity—that each problematize one or mo…
Male Sexual Victimization
This study examines men's sexual victimization experiences in the United States using a nationally representative sample of victim narratives from the National Crime Victimization Survey. An analysis of men's incidents reveals many similarities to women's rapes and sexual assaults as well as some rather gendered differences, particularly in regard to offender sex, victims' willingness to report to officials, and a few uniquely masculine ways in w…
Roofies, Mickies and Cautionary Tales
This article examines the origins and persistence of the "roofies" story, a crime narrative that emerged during the mid 1990s, warning women to guard their drinks against lurking predators seeking to incapacitate and rape them. The article explores both the construction of this crime story as a panic over club drugs and its persistence as a women's cautionary tale. We argue that the roofies narrative has endured long beyond the typical crime stor…
Boys Will Be Boys” and Other Gendered Accounts
An examination of 944 victim narratives from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) finds that one in five women who reveal an incident of sexual victimization to the NCVS excuse or justify their situations, largely by drawing on social vocabularies that suggest male sexual aggression is natural, normal within dating relationships, or the victim's fault. The study's findings substantiate the influence that rape myths and gender stereotype…
Boys Will Be Boys” and Other Gendered Accounts
An examination of 944 victim narratives from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) finds that one in five women who reveal an incident of sexual victimization to the NCVS excuse or justify their situations, largely by drawing on social vocabularies that suggest male sexual aggression is natural, normal within dating relationships, or the victim's fault. The study's findings substantiate the influence that rape myths and gender stereotype…
Male Sexual Victimization
This study examines men's sexual victimization experiences in the United States using a nationally representative sample of victim narratives from the National Crime Victimization Survey. An analysis of men's incidents reveals many similarities to women's rapes and sexual assaults as well as some rather gendered differences, particularly in regard to offender sex, victims' willingness to report to officials, and a few uniquely masculine ways in w…
Neutralizing sexual victimization
Drawing its examples from National Crime Victimization Survey narratives, this article proposes a theoretical framework for elucidating victims’ non-reporting accounts, the rationales that victims use to justify why they do not report sexual victimization to police. The framework delineates four account types—denying criminal intent, denying serious injury, denying victim innocence, and rejecting a victim identity—that each problematize one or mo…
Roofies, Mickies and Cautionary Tales
This article examines the origins and persistence of the "roofies" story, a crime narrative that emerged during the mid 1990s, warning women to guard their drinks against lurking predators seeking to incapacitate and rape them. The article explores both the construction of this crime story as a panic over club drugs and its persistence as a women's cautionary tale. We argue that the roofies narrative has endured long beyond the typical crime stor…
Normal Violence
This study examines the normalization of violence using the case of fighting on a college campus. Undergraduate participant observers witnessed 150 physical altercations (fights), and gave detailed descriptions of them. They also described their thoughts and feelings as they witnessed the fights. We identified seven distinct reactions to fighting. We then classified these reactions into one of three categories (normal, disturbed and other) and ca…
Boys Will Be Boys” and Other Gendered Accounts
An examination of 944 victim narratives from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) finds that one in five women who reveal an incident of sexual victimization to the NCVS excuse or justify their situations, largely by drawing on social vocabularies that suggest male sexual aggression is natural, normal within dating relationships, or the victim's fault. The study's findings substantiate the influence that rape myths and gender stereotype…
Male Sexual Victimization
This study examines men's sexual victimization experiences in the United States using a nationally representative sample of victim narratives from the National Crime Victimization Survey. An analysis of men's incidents reveals many similarities to women's rapes and sexual assaults as well as some rather gendered differences, particularly in regard to offender sex, victims' willingness to report to officials, and a few uniquely masculine ways in w…
Roofies, Mickies and Cautionary Tales
This article examines the origins and persistence of the "roofies" story, a crime narrative that emerged during the mid 1990s, warning women to guard their drinks against lurking predators seeking to incapacitate and rape them. The article explores both the construction of this crime story as a panic over club drugs and its persistence as a women's cautionary tale. We argue that the roofies narrative has endured long beyond the typical crime stor…
Neutralizing sexual victimization
Drawing its examples from National Crime Victimization Survey narratives, this article proposes a theoretical framework for elucidating victims’ non-reporting accounts, the rationales that victims use to justify why they do not report sexual victimization to police. The framework delineates four account types—denying criminal intent, denying serious injury, denying victim innocence, and rejecting a victim identity—that each problematize one or mo…
Marijuana, Gender, and Health-Related Harms
This study examines marijuana's contribution to “risky partying” and the health-related harms experienced by college students in a “party” context. Data from a self-report survey of 787 undergraduate students at a large residential university show that marijuana users are more likely than non-users to drink excessively, use other drugs and, in turn, experience health-related harms (illness, blackouts, injury from accidents, and injury from fights…
Discretion and the Sex Dyad
Gender has been hypothesized to affect how violent offenders are treated within the criminal justice system, but studies have tended to ignore the role of the victim in decision making. This study explores the interactive effects of offender and victim sex (i.e., the sex dyad) on reporting and arrest of one-on-one assaultive crime. Using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey and National Incident-Based Reporting System, findings show …
Normal Violence
This study examines the normalization of violence using the case of fighting on a college campus. Undergraduate participant observers witnessed 150 physical altercations (fights), and gave detailed descriptions of them. They also described their thoughts and feelings as they witnessed the fights. We identified seven distinct reactions to fighting. We then classified these reactions into one of three categories (normal, disturbed and other) and ca…
Psychology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (5 works) · Human Factors and Ergonomics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works)