Beyond the Mainstream: A Theory Test of School Engagement and Sexual Assault

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dc.contributor.advisorThornberry, Terence Pen_US
dc.contributor.authorVlajnic, Maja Milanaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-11T06:00:38Z
dc.date.available2012-10-11T06:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractWhile many mainstream criminological theories purportedly explain all types of crime, next to nothing in the literature tests for rape and sexual assault — an exceptional oversight, considering that an alternate theoretical explanation (feminist theory) exists for this class of crime. This thesis hopes to begin to rectify this gap in the literature by testing an aspect of control theory, the school bond. Using the National Youth Survey, logistic regression is applied to test the effects of school engagement (academic and athletic) on rapes attempted or completed by male adolescents. Support for neither the control theory hypothesis nor the feminist theory hypothesis is found, as neither engagement variable reaches significant results. However, this thesis still hopes to emphasize the necessity of literature specifically testing rape and sexual assault, and offers directions for future research to expand on this.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13203
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCriminologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcontrol theoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfeminist theoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrapeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledschoolen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsexual assaulten_US
dc.titleBeyond the Mainstream: A Theory Test of School Engagement and Sexual Assaulten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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