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Abstract:
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The purpose of this study is to examine college students' perceptions toward adolescent dating violence . The objective is to determine whether there were any statistically significant differences in knowledge and experience among criminology and criminal justice majors and non -criminology and criminal justice majors . Surveys were administered to 100 college students to measure knowledge and experience of adolescent dating violence . Survey responses of students who identified themselves as criminology and criminal justice majors were compared to responses of those students who did not consider themselves criminology and criminal justice majors . While there were some statistically significant differences between the two groups with regards to both knowledge and experience , there were not as many differences as the author hypothesized . The findings of this study demonstrate shortcomings in both policy and education in both adolescent dating violence prevention and education . |