Risk, Crime and Gender

Chan, Wendy; Rigakos, George S.

doi:10.1093/bjc/42.4.743

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“…From young women's accounts, it appeared as though they were demonstrating an almost heightened awareness of risks and the need to take precautionary measures on account of their living in a highly masculine boomtown. However, people often describe their behaviors in stereotypically gendered ways (Connell, 2002) and research on risk has often found that how people perceive risk is gendered (Chan & Rigakos, 2002;Gibbs Van Brunschot, Laurendeau, & Keown, 2009). Therefore, young women could have simply been articulating their experiences to me in a similar manner to what researchers have found in non-boomtown contexts.…”

Section: Social Cohesion and Living In A Late Modern Boomtownmentioning

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Insiders and outsiders: social change, deviant others, and sense of community in a boomtown

O’Connor

2014

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justi

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In the last decade, the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta has undergone significant social changes due to the rapid growth of the oilsands industry in and around the city. In this short period of time, Fort Murray's population has more than doubled attracting migrants from all over Canada and internationally to fill labor shortages in the city. In the process, Fort McMurray has become a twenty-first century boomtown. Drawing on in-depth interviews, this article examines how young people and (adult) key informants perceived disorder, crime, risk, and boomtown living. It was found that participants drew a sharp distinction between those who contributed to the community by making Fort McMurray a home (the insiders) and those who did not (the outsiders). Blame for many of the negative aspects (i.e., disorder, crime, and risks) that came along with boomtown living was attributed to these outsiders.

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Section: Social Cohesion and Living In A Late Modern Boomtownmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insiders and outsiders: social change, deviant others, and sense of community in a boomtown

O’Connor

2014

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justi

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“…This representation is reinforced in legal literature when there is an uncritical acceptance of law's historical and mutually-reinforcing associations with certain other expert practices and knowledges (such as medicine and psychiatry). In order to challenge this mindset in the prison governance context, greater attention needs to be paid to those risk analyses that do recognise the variability of risk technologies and knowledges (for example, in relation to gender (Chan and Rigakos 2002;Hannah-Moffat 2004 symbols and non-rational fears can also be shown to shape the "risks" in question ' (2000: 515). Accounts of risk which privilege expert knowledges and quantifiable formats may mislead not only as to the character of the information used, they may also be misleading in relation to the methods of risk assessment: for example, 'risk calculations and predictions are in fact often carried out by non-scientific personnel using very subjective tools ' (2000: 521).…”

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confidence: 99%

Risk and Human Rights in UK Prison Governance

Murphy¹,

Whitty²

2007

British Journal of Criminology

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. everywhere that risk appears, it is assembled into complex configurations with other technologies… '(2004: 26-7). This article responds to that appeal by focusing specifically on prison governance in the UK. It aims, first, to draw attention to a range of intersections between risk and human rights, and argues that these intersections require analysis. Secondly, it suggests some key features of a 'risk and rights' analysis by drawing upon insights from within criminology, human rights law and regulation scholarship. In order to explore these issues, we have divided the article into three parts. The first part speculates on British criminology's (non) engagement with human rights and queries why the growth in prisoner rights litigation has not registered in criminology scholarship on prisons. 2 Then, in the second part, we highlight the widespread lack of engagement with risk amongst (human rights) lawyers, both at the theoretical level and in terms of the uses of risk assessment and management in legal practice. In the final part of the article, we argue that criminologists and lawyers should be examining the co-existence of risk and rights discourses in UK prison governance and we suggest some key features of a 'risk and rights' stream of academic enquiry. Part One: Criminologists and Human Rights

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“…Apparently, women are more concerned about the possibility that all kinds of violent events that might happen to them. The fact women perceive a higher likelihood of experiencing all criminal events than men do, while in fact most of these events happen more to men, indicates fear of crime among women does not represent a real higher risk of being victimized, as was suggested by Stanko (1990) or Chan and Rigakos (2002). Moreover, these results suggest that gender differences in fear of crime are also found for events that cannot be linked to the 104 D. Fetchenhauer and B. P. Buunk risk of rape.…”

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How to explain gender differences in fear of crime: Towards an evolutionary approach

Fetchenhauer

Buunk

2005

Sexualities, Evolution & Gender

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Employing data from a sample of 610 Dutch high school students and their parents, this article argues in favour of an evolutionary explanation for the fact that women are more fearful of crime than men while they are less often victimized. With respect to a variety of events that involved physical injury, varying from robbery to being involved in a car accident, female respondents were, compared to male respondents, more fearful of every event, judged every single event to be more harmful, and consistently rated their own probability to experience these events in the future as higher. The findings suggest that fear of crime among women does not represent a real higher risk of being victimized, is not primarily linked to the risk of being raped, and is not an isolated phenomenon. Indeed, women seem in general more fearful of all kinds of events that might imply a physical injury. The observed gender differences were not influenced by the degree of traditionality of the family of the respondents as expressed in status differences between the parents, in the division of household tasks, and in having an intact family. The gender differences could neither be explained by a perceived norm that boys must be more risk taking than girls. It is concluded that the observed gender differences may be the result of sexual selection that favoured risk-taking and status fights among males, and being cautious and protecting one's offspring among females.

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Risk, Crime and Gender

Cited by 84 publications

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Insiders and outsiders: social change, deviant others, and sense of community in a boomtown

Insiders and outsiders: social change, deviant others, and sense of community in a boomtown

Risk and Human Rights in UK Prison Governance

How to explain gender differences in fear of crime: Towards an evolutionary approach

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