TY - JOUR
T1 - ASSAULT PREVENTION AS SOCIAL CONTROL
T2 - WOMEN AND SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION ON URBAN COLLEGE CAMPUSES
AU - DAY, KRISTEN
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was conducted through the support of the American Association of University Women and the Johnson Controls Institute for Environmental Quality in Architecture. Sincere thanks to Sherry Ahrentzen, Roberta Feldman, Ellie Miller, and two anonymous reviewers for their generous comments on earlier drafts of this article.
PY - 1995/12
Y1 - 1995/12
N2 - Sexual assault on U.S.A. college campuses is increasingly recognized as an urgent and pervasive national problem. To prevent assault, school administrators and individual women promote and adopt safety strategies that often compromise women’s free and independent use of the campus environment. Such strategies may fail to correspond to the actual nature of sexual assault on campus. Based on open-ended interviews with college personnel and women students, this study examines sexual assault and personal crime prevention strategies at two midwestern, urban universities. School and individual strategies are characterized according to type, goals, and orientation. Findings explore the relationship of strategies to sexual assault on campus, and implications of strategies for women’s use of public space. Conclusions suggest means to increase real safety while enhancing women’s freedom and mobility on and near campus.
AB - Sexual assault on U.S.A. college campuses is increasingly recognized as an urgent and pervasive national problem. To prevent assault, school administrators and individual women promote and adopt safety strategies that often compromise women’s free and independent use of the campus environment. Such strategies may fail to correspond to the actual nature of sexual assault on campus. Based on open-ended interviews with college personnel and women students, this study examines sexual assault and personal crime prevention strategies at two midwestern, urban universities. School and individual strategies are characterized according to type, goals, and orientation. Findings explore the relationship of strategies to sexual assault on campus, and implications of strategies for women’s use of public space. Conclusions suggest means to increase real safety while enhancing women’s freedom and mobility on and near campus.
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U2 - 10.1006/jevp.1995.0024
DO - 10.1006/jevp.1995.0024
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037524805
SN - 0272-4944
VL - 15
SP - 261
EP - 281
JO - Journal of Environmental Psychology
JF - Journal of Environmental Psychology
IS - 4
ER -