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

By Carly M. Hilinski. 2009

98 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/83f81420b646df80e356d50d48b9bac1bdf18f35

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In Gender Studies

1. Bradford W. Reyns
2. B. Fisher
3. Billy Henson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Bradford W. Reyns
2. Billy Henson
3. B. Fisher
4. Travis C. Pratt
5. Nicola Henry
6. Anastasia Powell
7. J. Turanovic
8. Kristy Holtfreter

Citations in the corpus

• “It Happens All the Time”: Women’s Experiences and Normalization of Sexual Harassment in Public Space (2018, background): “According to the shadow of sexual assault hypothesis women’s greater fear for other crimes such as burglary, robbery, and assault can be attributed to their higher fear of sexual crimes (Ferraro, 1996; Hilinski, 2009; Hirtenlehner & Farrall, 2014; Özascilar, 2013).”
• Being Pursued Online (2011, result): “Similar studies of comparable populations have produced rates of participation similar to those in the current study (e.g., Hilinski, 2009; Nobles, Fox, Piquero, & Piquero, 2009; Patton, Nobles, & Fox, 2010).”
• Fear of Crime Online? Examining the Effect of Risk, Previous Victimization, and Exposure on Fear of Online Interpersonal Victimization (2013, background): “Others have asked participants to rate their fear along a 10-point scale, with 1 representing no fear to 10 representing high fear (Fisher & Sloan, 2003; Hilinski, 2009).”