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Citation

Wilcox P, Jordan CE, Pritchard AJ. Violence Vict. 2006; 21(3): 355-370.

Affiliation

Division of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221-0389, USA. pamela.wilcox@uc.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16761859

Abstract

Using a sample of 1010 women from a southeastern state university, we explore whether associations between fear of sexual assault and other crime-specific fears vary based on presumed victim-offender relationship. More specifically, we assess the extent to which fear of stranger- and acquaintance-perpetrated sexual assaults differ in the extent to which they are correlated with fear of other crime victimizations. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that both fear of stranger-perpetrated sexual assault and fear of acquaintance-perpetrated sexual assault were positively associated with nearly all other crime-specific fears under examination. However, associations were particularly strong between fear of sexual assault by a stranger and fear of other stranger-perpetrated crimes. Findings have significant implications for how academic institutions should comprehensively address direct and indirect negative influences of violence against college women.


Language: en

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