This paper is about the relationship between criminal victimization and people’s perception of safety. The study refers simultaneously to three indicators of fear of crime: feeling unsafe alone in the streets after dark, fear of sexual violence (her or her relatives), fear of crime affecting own habits - against sexual victimization and characteristics of the place of residence, controlling demographic and socio-economic attributes of Italian women. The main results show that a) the prior victimization and crime exposure shape perceived future risk; b) fear of crime partly reflects worries about one's degraded context; c) married women seem more affected by the fear of crime, especially the fear of suffering directly or indirectly any sexual violence.

Fear of Crime and Victimization among Sexual Harassed Women: Evidence from Italy

COLANGELO, LUIGI
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Mancini P
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2016-01-01

Abstract

This paper is about the relationship between criminal victimization and people’s perception of safety. The study refers simultaneously to three indicators of fear of crime: feeling unsafe alone in the streets after dark, fear of sexual violence (her or her relatives), fear of crime affecting own habits - against sexual victimization and characteristics of the place of residence, controlling demographic and socio-economic attributes of Italian women. The main results show that a) the prior victimization and crime exposure shape perceived future risk; b) fear of crime partly reflects worries about one's degraded context; c) married women seem more affected by the fear of crime, especially the fear of suffering directly or indirectly any sexual violence.
2016
9788861970618
fear of crime, sexual harassment, victimization
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