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Sexual harassment on transit: a global, comparative examination
UCLA Department of Urban Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Urban Planning and Environment, Urban and Regional Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5302-1698
2022 (English)In: Security Journal, ISSN 0955-1662, E-ISSN 1743-4645, Vol. 35, no 1, p. 175-204Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article examines the incidence of an omnipresent but underreported crime intransit environments: sexual harassment. More specifically, it presents the findingsof a global comparative study that surveyed 11,710 college students from 18 cities insix different continents, to inquire about their victimization experiences with verbal,physical, and non-verbal/non-physical sexual harassment in transit environments.The study finds that sexual harassment is a common occurrence in all cities but how,where, and to what extent it happens is quite specific to the particular socio-spatialcontexts. Certain individual characteristics of students and environmental characteristicsof the transit setting can increase the risk of harassment. Different typesof sexual harassment are more likely to happen in certain transit settings than others.While female students are disproportionately affected, some male students alsoreport experiences of victimization. The study concludes with a discussion of multiprongedresponses to harassment.

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Springer Nature , 2022. Vol. 35, no 1, p. 175-204
Keywords [en]
Sexual harassment, Transit, College students
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Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-291467DOI: 10.1057/s41284-020-00271-1ISI: 000605861700005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85099027336OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-291467DiVA, id: diva2:1536956
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