RT Article
T1 Assessing the reversed gender gap in the Swedish crime survey: reasons why young women report higher victimization rates than young men during the period 2009 to 2016
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 00
SP 1
OP 25
A1 Hagerlid, Mika
A1 Löfgren, Charlotta
A2 Löfgren, Charlotta
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1934799424
AB Self-reported victimization among young women in the Swedish Crime Survey increased during the early- to mid-2010s, resulting in a gender gap, with young women reporting 10% to 15% higher victimization rates than young men. In this study, we use multi-group confirmatory factor analysis to assess whether the increase in victimization rates is due to declines in measurement equivalence across different cohorts of young women during the period 2009 to 2016. The results show cohort differences in how young women interpret the victimization items in the Swedish Crime Survey, especially with regard to the item about sexual victimization. The results show that the increasing victimization rates are likely the result of changes in perceptions about sexual offences, rather than an actual increase.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 21-25
K1 gender and victimization
K1 Nordic paradox
K1 Swedish Crime Survey
K1 measurement equivalence
K1 multi-group confirmatory factor analysis
K1 women and crime
DO 10.1177/00111287241290510