Gender, fear, and victimization: A preliminary application of power‐control theory

Sacco, Vincent F.

doi:10.1080/02732173.1990.9981942

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“…It is assumed that women are in general more vulnerable to crime and sensitive to potential risk of victimization. This vulnerability or sensitivity is likely to origin in the process of socialization during which women are learned to be fearful and take care while men are encouraged to be brave and take risk (Garofalo, 1979;Sacco, 1990). With respect to age and education the evidence is, however, mixed.…”

Section: Correlates Of Fear Of Crimementioning

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Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Krulichová¹

2018

Auc Philosophica Et Historica

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Subjective well-being is usually studied with respect to marital and occupational status, income or subjective health. Conversely, research examining the relationship between this phenomenon and crime related factors is still relatively limited. This study therefore aims to extent the current knowledge in this area. Using data from the fifth wave of the European Social Survey for the Czech Republic, in which 2386 respondents participated, we conduct a hierarchical regression analysis to find out to what extent victimization experience and fear of crime influence life satisfaction and happiness of Czechs. The results of the analysis reveal a direct relationship between fear of crime and subjective well-being. On the contrary, victimization affects life satisfaction and happiness indirectly via the fear of crime. Surprisingly, a decrease in life satisfaction is greater for fearful men than fearful women, whereas there are no gender differences regarding the fear of crime -happiness link.

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Section: Correlates Of Fear Of Crimementioning

confidence: 99%

Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Krulichová¹

2018

Auc Philosophica Et Historica

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“…Attempts to resolve this apparent illogicality have been numerous and sometimes insightful. Sacco (1990) identifies two explanations of the fear-victimization paradox that shed light on women's fear of crime. First, scholars argue that official crime data fail to capture the full extent of female victimization (e.g., rape and domestic abuse are highly underreported).…”

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A Multilevel Analysis of the Vulnerability, Disorder, and Social Integration Models of Fear of Crime

2008

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The current research tests three conceptual models designed to explain citizens' fear of crime-vulnerability, disorder, and social integration. These models are assessed for differential impact across the cognitive and affective dimensions of fear of crime. The analysis reported here considers the consecutive and simultaneous influence of individual-and city-level factors using multilevel modeling techniques. Recently collected survey data for 2,599 citizens nested within 21 cities across Washington State provide the empirical evidence for the analysis. Results indicate that the disorder model is best able to explain variation in both the cognitive and affective dimensions of citizens' fear of crime across cities. The vulnerability and social integration models explain significantly less variation. Further, the vulnerability model lacks directional consistency across the observed dimensions of fear. Societal implications of the research findings are discussed.Keywords Fear of crime Á Victimization Á Multilevel analysis Á Vulnerability Á Disorder Á Social integration Fear of crime has been recognized as a significant social problem, affecting the quality of life across various demographic and socio-economic conditions. Attempts to understand the dynamics underlying the fear of crime have led to numerous empirical and theoretical developments. Three dominant models have emerged as possible explanations of variation in fear of crime among citizens-the vulnerability, disorder, and social integration models. While each of these models has received some

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“…Of these, gender is the most salient predictor of fear of crime (Ferraro 1995;Reid and Konrad 2004). Women consistently have been found to have higher levels of fear of crime across contextual settings and operational definitions of fear (Akers et al 1987;Ferraro 1995;Liska et al 1988;Ortega and Myles 1987;Reid and Konrad 2004;Sacco 1990;Warr 1984). Women's reported levels of fear of reported by men, despite the fact that men have a higher risk of victimization for almost all nonsexual violent crimes, including robbery and aggravated assault (Reid and Konrad 2004).…”

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Fear of Crime among College Students: A Test of the Shadow of Sexual Assault Hypothesis

Hilinski

2008

Am J Crim Just

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Women's fear of rape and sexual assault has been both theoretically and empirically linked to their fear of other types of crimes, a phenomenon referred to as the shadow of sexual assault hypothesis in past research. This thesis has been supported across specific populations (i.e., the general population of women in the United States and college women in the United States), but the research examining the shadow of sexual assault hypothesis has suffered from methodological limitations. The current research corrected these limitations and performed a test of the shadow of sexual assault hypothesis among college and university students across temporal situations and victim-offender relationships. The findings indicate that women's fear of rape and sexual assault does impact their fear of nonsexual crimes across temporal situations and victim-offender relationships.

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Gender, fear, and victimization: A preliminary application of power‐control theory

Cited by 64 publications

References 28 publications

Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

Life satisfaction and happiness: discussing the impact of fear of crime and victimization

A Multilevel Analysis of the Vulnerability, Disorder, and Social Integration Models of Fear of Crime

Fear of Crime among College Students: A Test of the Shadow of Sexual Assault Hypothesis

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