Item #550
Women have a hightened sense of fear of violent crime despite less objective risk (and a low "perceived likelihood that they would happen")
Topic: ViolenceSource
Citation: Women's and Men's Fear of Gang Crimes: Sexual and Nonsexual Assault as Perceptually Contemporaneous Offenses, pp. 338-340, 352, 363 Author(s): Lane, Meeker Institution(s): University of Florida, University of California Link: http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Women_s_and_Men_s_Fear_of_Gang_Crimes__Sexual_and_Nonsexual_Assault_as_Perceptually_Contemporaneous_Offenses.pdf Nation(s): United States Year(s): 2003 Source: Secondary Type: JournalDiscussion
Other Notes:p. 342 - "In 1984, Warr examined the differences between women's and men's fear of specific crimes and argued that one explanation for women's greater fear was that women were more likely to assodate some offenses (e.g., begging, burglary) with other more serious ones (e.g., rape and murder)--a phenomenon he called "perceptually contemporaneous offenses." He found that controlling for mean fear on all other measured offenses eliminated the gender differences in half his models that predicted offense-specific fear."