TY - JOUR
T1 - The Neighborhood According to Women
T2 - Understanding Gendered Disorder Perceptions
AU - Gaub, Janne E.
AU - Wallace, Danielle
AU - Hoyle, Mary Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Women perceive higher rates of disorder in their neighborhood than males, though why remains unknown. We hypothesize that the differential role women play in neighborhood social life accounts for their higher disorder perceptions. To test this, we use the Seattle Neighborhoods and Crime Survey and fully interacted regressions with fixed effects for neighborhoods to determine if gendered disorder perceptions are a function of fear of crime, informal social control, and neighboring behaviors. Only the ability to identify strangers on the block predicts gendered disorder perceptions. Moreover, the fully interacted regressions account for most differences in gendered disorder perceptions. Our null findings have significant consequences for the supposed differential social role women have in their neighborhoods and fear of crime.
AB - Women perceive higher rates of disorder in their neighborhood than males, though why remains unknown. We hypothesize that the differential role women play in neighborhood social life accounts for their higher disorder perceptions. To test this, we use the Seattle Neighborhoods and Crime Survey and fully interacted regressions with fixed effects for neighborhoods to determine if gendered disorder perceptions are a function of fear of crime, informal social control, and neighboring behaviors. Only the ability to identify strangers on the block predicts gendered disorder perceptions. Moreover, the fully interacted regressions account for most differences in gendered disorder perceptions. Our null findings have significant consequences for the supposed differential social role women have in their neighborhoods and fear of crime.
KW - disorder perceptions
KW - fear of crime
KW - gender differences
KW - informal social control
KW - neighborhoods
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U2 - 10.1177/0011128720968491
DO - 10.1177/0011128720968491
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85095933685
SN - 0011-1287
VL - 67
SP - 891
EP - 915
JO - Crime and Delinquency
JF - Crime and Delinquency
IS - 6-7
ER -