RT Article
T1 Fear of Crime among College Students: A Test of the Shadow of Sexual Assault Hypothesis
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 34
IS 1/2
SP 84
OP 102
A1 Hilinski, Carly M.
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764201264
AB Women’s fear of rape and sexual assault has been both theoretically and empirically linked to their fear of other types of crimes, a phenomenon referred to as the shadow of sexual assault hypothesis in past research. This thesis has been supported across specific populations (i.e., the general population of women in the United States and college women in the United States), but the research examining the shadow of sexual assault hypothesis has suffered from methodological limitations. The current research corrected these limitations and performed a test of the shadow of sexual assault hypothesis among college and university students across temporal situations and victim-offender relationships. The findings indicate that women’s fear of rape and sexual assault does impact their fear of nonsexual crimes across temporal situations and victim-offender relationships.
K1 College students
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Shadow of sexual assault hypothesis
DO 10.1007/s12103-008-9047-x