Examining residence status as a risk factor for health risk behaviors among college students

Objective: The current study is aimed to evaluate college student residence as a unique risk factor for a range of negative health behaviors. Participants: We examined data from 63,555 students (66% females) from 157 campuses who completed the National College Health Assessment Survey in Spring 2011. Methods: Participants answered questions about the frequency of recent use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and illicit drugs, as well as sexual risk behavior in the last 30 days. Sexual risk behaviors were operationalized as having unprotected vaginal sex (yes/no) and the number of sexual partners. Results: Logistic regression analyses revealed that living off-campus is a unique predictor of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and illicit drug use, as well as engaging in unprotected sex and a greater number of sexual partners (all ps <. 01). Conclusions: Students living off-campus exhibit more substance use and sexual risk behaviors than students living on-campus, independent of gender, age, or race.     

Jugend, Gewalt, Fernsehen und Erwachsene — Ein Plädoyer für visuelle Bildung

In modern society, the question of the collective adult’s responsibility for children in the visual field must be renewed. Background is that complaining about a high level of violence in films, television and PC games to just reach more state-prescribed “looking-away” is quite unproductive. In order to counter the dominance of all kind of pictures passivity of young spectators. Instead of navie watching, children must develop very early the ability to consciously and critically see things in order for them to be able to decrypt correctly all kind of audiovisual messages. ‘Seeing’ is, similar to learning calculation on as well as writing and reading, an elementary task of modern general education, which can not be the mission of parents.     

At the Intersection of Urban Sociology and Criminology: Fear Of Crime and the Postindustrial City

This essay examines the intersections between urban sociology and criminology in relation to fear of crime. I argue that there is a disconnect between theory and practice when it comes to reducing fear of crime that needs to be resolved in order for the postindustrial city to attract the new middle‐class demographic that is known for embracing and seeking out diversity. Despite the contributions made by environmental criminologists and new urbanists, the most popular explanation of fear of crime and crime reduction, offered by the field of criminology, focuses on reducing quality‐of‐life offenses and incivilities. Yet, these strategies are not known to significantly reduce fear of crime, but rather for purging the urban landscape of its diversity through exclusion.     

Estimating the change in soccer’s home advantage during the Covid-19 pandemic using bivariate Poisson regression

AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis - In wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2019–2020 soccer seasons across the world were postponed and eventually made up during the summer months of 2020....