Özaşçılar Mine, Ziyalar Neylan
1 Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
2 Istanbul University, Turkey.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2017 Jul;61(9):993-1010. doi: 10.1177/0306624X15613334. Epub 2015 Oct 29.
Studies have examined university students' fear of crime focusing on the relationship between the fear of sexual assault and fear of other crimes, termed the shadow of sexual assault hypothesis; however, no study to date has examined the shadow thesis in a Turkish context. Drawing on the shadow thesis, using a sample of 723 university students in Istanbul, this study focuses on the effect of fear of sexual assault and perceived risk of crime to general fear of crime among university students in Istanbul. Also, the predictors of fear of crime are explored to examine the relationship between lifestyle characteristics, constrained behaviors, and fear. The findings of the study supported the shadow thesis, indicating that fear of sexual assault shaped the nonsexual crimes, especially crimes involving face-to-face confrontations between the victim and offender. Furthermore, lifestyle characteristics are correlated with the men's fear of nonsexual crimes, particularly fear of robbery, aggravated assault, and burglary home.
已有研究聚焦于大学生对性侵犯的恐惧与对其他犯罪的恐惧之间的关系，即所谓的性侵犯阴影假说，来考察大学生对犯罪的恐惧；然而，迄今为止尚无研究在土耳其背景下检验这一阴影理论。基于阴影理论，本研究以伊斯坦布尔的723名大学生为样本，重点探讨对性侵犯的恐惧和感知到的犯罪风险对伊斯坦布尔大学生对犯罪的总体恐惧的影响。此外，还探究了犯罪恐惧的预测因素，以检验生活方式特征、受限行为与恐惧之间的关系。该研究结果支持了阴影理论，表明对性侵犯的恐惧影响了非性犯罪，尤其是涉及受害者与犯罪者面对面冲突的犯罪。此外，生活方式特征与男性对非性犯罪的恐惧相关，特别是对抢劫、严重袭击和入室盗窃的恐惧。
