Lane Jodi, Gover Angela R, Dahod Sara
Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611-7330, USA.
Violence Vict. 2009;24(2):172-92. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.24.2.172.
Prior research has consistently shown that women are more afraid of crime than men despite the fact that men are much more likely to be victims of all crime except sexual assault and intimate partner violence. The "shadow of sexual assault" hypothesis argues that women's fear of sexual assault shadows their fear of other types of crime, particularly violent crime. Building on prior research by Ferraro (1996) and Fisher and Sloan (2003), this study examines the individual and combined impact of perceived risk and fear of sexual assault on fear of robbery and assault among college students. Findings indicate that fear of sexual assault is the stronger predictor of fear of crime for women and that perceived risk is the stronger predictor for men.
先前的研究一直表明，尽管在除性侵犯和亲密伴侣暴力之外的所有犯罪类型中，男性更有可能成为受害者，但女性比男性更害怕犯罪。“性侵犯阴影”假说认为，女性对性侵犯的恐惧掩盖了她们对其他类型犯罪的恐惧，尤其是暴力犯罪。基于费拉罗（1996年）以及费舍尔和斯隆（2003年）之前的研究，本研究考察了感知风险和对性侵犯的恐惧对大学生抢劫和袭击恐惧的个体影响及综合影响。研究结果表明，对性侵犯的恐惧是女性犯罪恐惧的更强预测因素，而感知风险是男性犯罪恐惧的更强预测因素。
