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Pamela Wilcox is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, and social psychology. Their research spans multiple topics primarily related to crime patterns, victimization, and policing.

The main areas of study in Wilcox's body of work include:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment

Their frequent publication venues demonstrate a focus on criminology and victimology-related journals:

  • Crime & Delinquency
  • Victims & Offenders
  • Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Journal of Quantitative Criminology
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilcox include:

  • "Crime Generators in Context: Examining 'Place in Neighborhood' Propositions," 2020, Journal of Quantitative Criminology
  • "Individual Risk, Country-Level Social Support, and Bullying and Cyberbullying Victimization Among Youths: A Cross-national Study," 2021, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • "Following their Lead: Police Perceptions and their Effects on Crime Prevention," 2020, Justice Quarterly
  • "Physical Health Risk Factors across Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying Victim and Offender Groups," 2020, Victims & Offenders
  • "Examining Patterns of School-Based Polyvictimization and Repeat Victimization: A Latent Class Analysis Approach," 2021, Victims & Offenders

Wilcox regularly collaborates with a number of researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • O SooHyun
  • Rustu Deryol
  • YongJei Lee
  • Bonnie S. Fisher
  • Allison Kurpiel

Best Publications

  • BUSY PLACES AND BROKEN WINDOWS? Toward Defining the Role of Physical Structure and Process in Community Crime Models

    Pamela Wilcox;Neil Quisenberry;Debra T. Cabrera;Shayne Jones

  • A Multidimensional Examination of Campus Safety Victimization, Perceptions of Danger, Worry About Crime, and Precautionary Behavior Among College Women in the Post-Clery Era

    Pamela Wilcox;Carol E. Jordan;Adam J. Pritchard

  • Guardianship in context: Implications for burglary victimization risk and prevention

    Pamela Wilcox;Tamara D. Madensen;Marie Skubak Tillyer

  • Criminological Theory: Past to Present

    Robert Agnew;Francis T. Cullen;Pamela Wilcox

  • Criminology of the unpopular Implications for policy aimed at payday lending facilities

    Pamela Wilcox;John E. Eck

  • Student Weapon Possession and the “Fear and Victimization Hypothesis”: Unraveling the Temporal Order

    Pamela Wilcox;David C. May;Staci D. Roberts

  • The Effects of School Crime Prevention on Students’ Violent Victimization, Risk Perception, and Fear of Crime: A Multilevel Opportunity Perspective

    Marie Skubak Tillyer;Bonnie S. Fisher;Pamela Wilcox

  • The Built Environment and Community Crime Risk Interpretation

    Pamela Wilcox;Neil Quisenberry;Shayne Jones

  • Gendered Opportunity? School-Based Adolescent Victimization

    Pamela Wilcox;Marie Skubak Tillyer;Bonnie S. Fisher

  • Disentangling the effects of correctional education Are current policies misguided? An event history analysis

    Mary Ellen Batiuk;Karen F. Lahm;Matthew Mckeever;Norma Wilcox

  • Stalking acknowledgement and reporting among college women experiencing intrusive behaviors: Implications for the emergence of a “classic stalking case”

    Carol E. Jordan;Pamela Wilcox;Adam J. Pritchard

  • Criminal circumstance : a dynamic multicontextual criminal opportunity theory

    Pamela Wilcox;Kenneth C. Land;Scott A. Hunt

  • A multilevel analysis of school-based weapon possession

    Pamela Wilcox;Richard R. Clayton

  • The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory

    Francis T. Cullen;Pamela Wilcox

  • Something Old, Something New: Revisiting Competing Hypotheses of the Victimization-Offending Relationship Among Adolescents

    Graham C. Ousey;Pamela Wilcox;Bonnie S. Fisher

  • Fear of acquaintance versus stranger rape as a "master status": towards refinement of the "shadow of sexual assault".

    Pamela Wilcox;Carol E. Jordan;Adam J. Pritchard

  • THE INTERACTION OF ANTISOCIAL PROPENSITY AND LIFE‐COURSE VARYING PREDICTORS OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR: DIFFERENCES BY METHOD OF ESTIMATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORY*

    Graham C. Ousey;Pamela Wilcox

  • Situational Opportunity Theories of Crime

    Pamela Wilcox;Francis T. Cullen

  • An ecological approach to understanding youth smoking trajectories: problems and prospects

    Pamela Wilcox

  • Déjà vu All Over Again: Investigating Temporal Continuity of Adolescent Victimization

    Graham C. Ousey;Pamela Wilcox;Sara Brummel

  • Gender, Adolescent Lifestyles, and Violent Victimization: Implications for Routine Activity Theory

    Billy Henson;Pamela Wilcox;Bradford W. Reyns;Francis T. Cullen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bonnie S. Fisher
Bonnie S. Fisher University of Cincinnati
Francis T. Cullen
Francis T. Cullen University of Cincinnati
Kenneth C. Land
Kenneth C. Land Duke University
Graham C. Ousey
Graham C. Ousey William & Mary
Richard R. Clayton
Richard R. Clayton University of Kentucky
Robert Agnew
Robert Agnew Emory University
Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson Harvard University

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