Running head: GENDER, CRIME VICTIM AND FEAR OF CRIME 1

Gender Crime Victim and Fear of Crime

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Gender Crime Victim and Fear of Crime

In view of the recent, high-profile incidents, violence and security on college campuses

have been attracting rising focus. In a group of college students, this research explores the

association between victimization and fear of violence, highlighting holes in the literature and

discussing core topics linked to gender disparities in terror. A representative group of adults

requests about past victimization and crime fear. In terms of relationships between four major

forms of personal victimization, gender disparities between men and women are examined:

harassment, sexual abuse, family conflict and intimate partner violence ( IPV). This topic

interests me because it shows the relationship between harassment of men and women.

Research question: Are men most likely to become victims of crimes while women

are more likely to suspect illegal activity?

Findings suggest females are more targeted than males and are more scared of violence.

In this study, race is often correlated with anxiety. In comparison, certain forms of crime

victimization are strongly associated with fear of violence, but these correlations vary from day

to night. Consequences are explored on campus in terms of the victimization of ethnicity,

paranoia and violence[ CITATION Kat09 \l 1033 ]. While prior research shows the contrary –

the new analysis focused on interpersonal crimes that women appear to suffer more frequently

than men, men are abused more often than women. In comparison, gender in daytime and

nighttime models is strongly correlated with the campus' fear of violence. The interactions

remain generally optimistic, suggesting that when adjusting for victimization records and a

number of other demographic variables females remain significantly more likely to report being

afraid[ CITATION Kat09 \l 1033 ].

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Comparison of daytime and nighttime fear of crime patterns reveals that daytime and

nighttime fears are correlated with very different records of victimization. Daytime anxiety is

associated with a variety of perceptions of crime victimization, including harassment, sexual

assault and robbery, while adjusting for complex demographic influences. Comparatively,

nighttime fear is correlated in one group with only one vector victimization (sexual assault),

indicating that daytime and nighttime fear may have very distinctive causal

mechanisms[ CITATION Kat09 \l 1033 ].

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Reference

Kate Fox, M. N. (2009, February). Gender, crime victimization and fear of crime. Retrieved from Researchgate:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247477988_Gender_crime_victimization_and_fear_of_crime