Women's and men's fear of gang crimes: Sexual and nonsexual assault as perceptually contemporaneous offenses

By J. Lane, J. Meeker. 2003

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. David C. May
2. Carol E. Jordan
3. A. Pritchard
4. P. Wilcox
5. A. Nellis
6. K. Fox
7. Matt R. Nobles
8. Alex R. Piquero

In Sociology and Political Science

1. B. Fisher
2. K. Fox
3. P. Wilcox
4. Matt R. Nobles
5. David C. May
6. Alex R. Piquero
7. Carol E. Jordan
8. A. Pritchard

Citations in the corpus

• College Students' Crime-Related Fears on Campus (2009, methodology): “…Campus 301 pieces have been published that identify and explain which factors, if any, differentiate crime-related fear between women and men (Lane & Meeker, 2003; May, 2001b; May & Dunaway, 2000; May, Vartanian, & Virgo, 2002; Reid & Konrad, 2004; Schafer, Huebner, & Bynum, 2006; Smith &…”
• Does Watching the News Affect Fear of Terrorism? The Importance of Media Exposure on Terrorism Fear (2012, background): “…1981; Stafford & Galle, 1984), people become afraid disproportionately to their objective risk of victimization because they are influenced by the information they receive about crime through informal sources, including the media (Lane & Meeker, 2003; Skogan & Maxfield, 1981; Tyler, 1980).”
• Gender Differences in Fear of Terrorism (2009, background): “Many attribute this difference to women’s heightened fear and of sexual assault (Ferraro, 1995) or physical assault (Lane & Meeker, 2003b). gender differences are certainly not unique to crime reactions: Research in related disciplines finds that women respond differently to stressful events than…”
• Fear of crime in urban parks – What the residents of Kuala Lumpur have to say? (2015, background): “The media also could aggravate erceptions of risk of victimisations and therefore induce the fear f crime (Lane and Meeker, 2003).”
• “It Happens All the Time”: Women’s Experiences and Normalization of Sexual Harassment in Public Space (2018, background): “This makes sexual crimes perceptually contemporaneous crimes, crimes that people think about when they think about fear of other crimes (Lane & Meeker, 2003; Warr, 1984, 1985).”
• Gender, crime victimization and fear of crime (2009, background): “Although support has been found for the shadow hypothesis ( Ferraro, 1996 ; Lane and Meeker, 2003 ), others have not successfully linked sexual assault and fear among women ( Wilcox et al , 2007 ).”
• A Multidimensional Examination of Campus Safety (2007, background): “…a strong correlate in previous studies of crime-specific fear (e.g., Ferraro, 1995, 1996; Fisher & Sloan, 2003; LaGrange, Ferraro, & Supancic, 1992; Lane & Meeker, 2003; Lee & Ulmer, 2000; May, 2001), yet our measure of campus danger does at least provide a sense of cognitive perceptions of…”