The Cumulative Financial Costs of Victimization Among College Students at Minority Serving Institutions, 2021-2022

The Challenges of Safety and Transitions Study (COSTs) was funded by the National Institutes of Justice (NIJ) to study the costs of victimization amongst a cohort of first-semester college students at minority-serving institutions (MSIs). COSTs consisted of three methodological components: 1) a three-wave prospective, longitudinal survey; 2) official campus enrollment and graduation data; and 3) focus group interviews. Advancing topical knowledge regarding the consequences and costs of victimization was achieved by querying participants about 12 unique types of victimization and a variety of tangible and intangible consequences and costs associated with specific victimization incidents up to one year after victimization.
COSTs participants completed three semi-annual online surveys from the Fall 2021 semester through Fall 2022 (approximately three academic semesters). Incident-based victimization data were collected, and participants were queried about ongoing behavioral, emotional, and financial costs associated with reported victimization incidents for the duration of data collection. Survey data were supplemented in each academic semester by official enrollment and graduation data from the university in which the participant was enrolled at the start of COSTs in order to further assess academic outcomes.

安全与转型挑战研究（The Challenges of Safety and Transitions Study，缩写COSTs）由美国国家司法研究所（National Institutes of Justice, NIJ）资助，旨在针对少数族裔服务型院校（minority-serving institutions, MSIs）的首学期大学生队列，探究其遭受侵害行为的相关成本。该研究包含三类方法学模块：1）三波前瞻性纵向调查；2）官方校园入学与毕业数据；3）焦点小组访谈。为深化关于侵害行为后果与成本的专题认知，研究人员向参与者询问了12种独特的侵害类型，以及侵害发生后长达一年内与具体侵害事件相关的各类有形与无形后果及成本。
COSTs的参与者在2021年秋季学期至2022年秋季学期（约三个学年学期）期间，完成了三次每半年一次的线上调查。研究收集了基于事件的侵害行为数据，并在数据收集周期内，向参与者询问其报告的侵害事件所引发的持续性行为、情绪及经济成本。在每个学年学期，研究都会通过参与者在COSTs研究启动时就读院校的官方入学与毕业数据，对调查数据进行补充，以进一步评估其学业表现。