What risk factors make university students vulnerable to criminal exploitation?

As found in one of the studies in this Crime Research Update

Apr 06, 2025

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Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation
Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: coercion, theft, drug, laundering, organized crime, exploitation, offender, victim
First author: Isobel Meredith (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK) [+3 other authors]

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Research by type of crime

Violence

Is Detecting Gender-Based Violence Part of Teachers’ Work?

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence
First author: Marta Garcia-Molsosa (Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain) [+4 other authors]

Bias-Motivated Violence and the Likelihood of Fatal Outcomes: A Criminal Event Perspective and Mixed-Method Approach

Journal: Justice Quarterly
Keywords: violence
First author: Brittany E. Hayes (School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati) [+3 other authors]

Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation

Journal: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Keywords: coercion, theft, drug, laundering, organized crime, exploitation, offender, victim
First author: Isobel Meredith (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK) [+3 other authors]

Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non‐Sex Offenders Through Age 70

Journal: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
Keywords: violent, offender, offending, arrest, incarceration, release, policy
First author: Chelsey S. Narvey (Department of Criminal Justice Sam Houston State University Huntsville Texas USA) [+5 other authors]

“Cruel Fathers,” Assortative Matching and Spousal Violence: Does Witnessing Spousal Violence as a Child Increase the Chances of Adult Victimhood?

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, victim, victimization
First author: Richa Kothari (IILM Academy of Higher Learning, Lucknow, India) [+2 other authors]

“It Just Rips My Heart Out”: Child Custody Dispositions After Women Leave Abusive Partners

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, violent, intimate partner violence, intimate partner, survivor, court, custody
First author: Leslie M. Tutty (University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada) [+2 other authors]

Early Intervention Against Male Supremacist Influences Among College Students: “It's Really Not a Program That Exists”

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, sexual violence, murder
First author: Miriam R. Arbeit (Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA) [+5 other authors]

Property

Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation

Detecting financial statement fraud using new ensemble learning: evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia

Journal: Journal of Financial Crime
Keywords: fraud, financial crime
First author: Moh. Riskiyadi

Drugs

Mental Health Care Barriers for Women Involved in the Criminal Legal System With Substance Use Disorders: A Qualitative Study

Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior
Keywords: substance use, opioid, incarceration, reentry, correctional, criminal justice, criminal legal system
First author: Emma M. Skogseth [+4 other authors]

Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation

White Collar

Understanding the Mechanisms that Drive Relational Events Dynamics and Structure in Corruption Networks

Journal: Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Keywords: corruption, criminal network, offending, prosecution
First author: Tomáš Diviák [+1 other author]

Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation

Detecting financial statement fraud using new ensemble learning: evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia

Journal: Journal of Financial Crime
Keywords: fraud, financial crime
First author: Moh. Riskiyadi

Organized

Understanding the Mechanisms that Drive Relational Events Dynamics and Structure in Corruption Networks

Journal: Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Keywords: corruption, criminal network, offending, prosecution
First author: Tomáš Diviák [+1 other author]

Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation

Cultural Approaches within Programs Designed to Address Human Trafficking in Native Communities

Journal: Journal of Human Trafficking
Keywords: human trafficking
First author: Elizabeth Tibaduiza (RTI International) [+4 other authors]

New Forms of Human Trafficking: Global South Highlights and Local Contexts on Sexual and Labor Exploitation

Journal: Journal of Human Trafficking
Keywords: human trafficking, exploitation
First author: Ritwan Agus Prasetyo (Universitas Airlangga) [+4 other authors]

Technology Facilitated

None found today.

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

Beyond Reoffending and Rearrest: Expanding the Collateral Consequences of Formal Processing to Youth Homelessness

Journal: Justice Quarterly
Keywords: offending, arrest
First author: Natasha Chlebuch (Department of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University) [+5 other authors]

Understanding the Mechanisms that Drive Relational Events Dynamics and Structure in Corruption Networks

Journal: Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Keywords: corruption, criminal network, offending, prosecution
First author: Tomáš Diviák [+1 other author]

Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation

Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non‐Sex Offenders Through Age 70

Navigating Reintegration Challenges: Coping Strategies of Juvenile Offenders in Ghana

Journal: Youth Justice
Keywords: offender, correctional, release
First author: Kwabena Frimpong-Manso [+1 other author]

Victimization

Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation

“Cruel Fathers,” Assortative Matching and Spousal Violence: Does Witnessing Spousal Violence as a Child Increase the Chances of Adult Victimhood?

Journal: Violence Against Women
Keywords: violence, victim, victimization
First author: Richa Kothari (IILM Academy of Higher Learning, Lucknow, India) [+2 other authors]

“It Just Rips My Heart Out”: Child Custody Dispositions After Women Leave Abusive Partners

Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations

Journal: Psychology, Crime & Law
Keywords: victim, survivor, law
First author: Gemma Hamilton (RMIT University) [+1 other author]

Safety in an unsafe world: Perceptions of security among Syrian refugees in Turkey

Journal: International Review of Victimology
Keywords: victim, victimology, police
First author: Nilüfer Narli (Bahcesehir University, Turkey) [+2 other authors]

Policing

Beyond Reoffending and Rearrest: Expanding the Collateral Consequences of Formal Processing to Youth Homelessness

Journal: Justice Quarterly
Keywords: offending, arrest
First author: Natasha Chlebuch (Department of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University) [+5 other authors]

“Respect the Badge”: Exploring the Use of Respect as a Means of Survival During Police Encounters

Journal: Justice Quarterly
Keywords: police
First author: Abigail Henson (Arizona State University) [+1 other author]

Prevalence and factors associated with cigarette smoking in police forces: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal: Policing: An International Journal
Keywords: police, policing, law enforcement, law
First author: Andrew Sayampanathan [+5 other authors]

Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non‐Sex Offenders Through Age 70

Safety in an unsafe world: Perceptions of security among Syrian refugees in Turkey

Journal: International Review of Victimology
Keywords: victim, victimology, police
First author: Nilüfer Narli (Bahcesehir University, Turkey) [+2 other authors]

Courts

Understanding the Mechanisms that Drive Relational Events Dynamics and Structure in Corruption Networks

Journal: Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Keywords: corruption, criminal network, offending, prosecution
First author: Tomáš Diviák [+1 other author]

“It Just Rips My Heart Out”: Child Custody Dispositions After Women Leave Abusive Partners

Corrections

Mental Health Care Barriers for Women Involved in the Criminal Legal System With Substance Use Disorders: A Qualitative Study

Procedural justice and language barriers in a Swiss penitentiary

Journal: European Journal of Criminology
Keywords: prison, incarceration, incarcerate
First author: Joëlle N Albrecht (Canton of Zurich, Switzerland; University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Konstanz, Germany) [+5 other authors]

Revisiting Correctional Intervention: Correctional Staff Views on the Adoption of New Practices

Journal: Corrections
Keywords: corrections, correctional
First author: Chloé Leclerc (Université de Montréal) [+2 other authors]

Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non‐Sex Offenders Through Age 70

“It Just Rips My Heart Out”: Child Custody Dispositions After Women Leave Abusive Partners

Depth in simultaneous familial imprisonment

Journal: Punishment & Society
Keywords: prison, incarcerate, punishment
First author: Ariadne Fischer (Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK)

Navigating Reintegration Challenges: Coping Strategies of Juvenile Offenders in Ghana

Journal: Youth Justice
Keywords: offender, correctional, release
First author: Kwabena Frimpong-Manso [+1 other author]

Public Policy

Mental Health Care Barriers for Women Involved in the Criminal Legal System With Substance Use Disorders: A Qualitative Study

Prevalence and factors associated with cigarette smoking in police forces: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal: Policing: An International Journal
Keywords: police, policing, law enforcement, law
First author: Andrew Sayampanathan [+5 other authors]

Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non‐Sex Offenders Through Age 70

Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations

Journal: Psychology, Crime & Law
Keywords: victim, survivor, law
First author: Gemma Hamilton (RMIT University) [+1 other author]

Unsorted Research

The following research doesn't appear to mention any of the terms my code searches for in order to sort research by crime type.

The Antisocial Core: A Chimeric Measure of Low Self-Control and Psychopathic Traits

Journal: Justice Quarterly
Keywords: -
First author: Pedro Pechorro (CINEICC, PsyAssessmentLab, Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra, University of Coimbra) [+4 other authors]

Self-Control in Context: How Hopelessness Shapes the Effect of Self-Control on Adolescent Delinquency

Journal: Deviant Behavior
Keywords: -
First author: Young Ju Chae (Southeastern Louisiana University) [+1 other author]

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What risk factors make university students vulnerable to criminal exploitation?

As found in one of the studies in this Crime Research Update

Research by type of crime

Violence

Property

Drugs

White Collar

Organized

Technology Facilitated

Research by criminal justice/legal system stage

Offending

Victimization

Policing

Courts

Corrections

Public Policy

Unsorted Research

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