Citation

Fineran S, Bennett LW. J. Interpers. Violence 1999; 14(6): 626-641.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/088626099014006004

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article describes the roles of gender, power, and relationship in peer sexual harassment for 342 urban high school students. Overall, 87% of girls and 79% of boys report experiencing peer sexual harassment, whereas 77% of girls and 72% of boys report sexually harassing their peers during the school year. Girls experience the more overtly sexual forms of harassment more often than boys and boys perpetrate sexual harassing behaviors more often than girls. Hypotheses of a relationship between power, gender, and the perpetration of peer sexual harassment are supported.

Language: en