Women's and men's fear of gang crimes: Sexual and nonsexual assault as perceptually contemporaneous offenses
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- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Justice Quarterly
- Vol. 20 (2) , 337-371
Abstract
Perceptually contemporaneous offenses are crimes that are coupled in people's minds when they express fear. Previous studies have shown that fear of rape predicts women's fears of other crimes. This study examined the differential effects of sexual and nonsexual assault as offenses that may be coupled with specific gang crimes. For both women and men, once physical harm is accounted for by controlling for fear of nonsexual assault, fear of rape explains much less variance than it does when it was included alone. We argue that fear of physical harm, not the sexual intrusion in rape, has the strongest effect on fear for both women and men.Keywords
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