Using a South Korean sample from 2010 National Crime Victim Survey, the current research examined the gender differences of fear of four different types of crime testing the shadow of sexual assault thesis, which asserts that sexual assault operates as a master offense for females. The current study provides insight into the robustness of the shadow hypothesis by controlling for various covariates (e.g., perceptions of the neighborhood and crime-related media consumption) that have been often omitted in this line of literature. Results show that the largest difference in fear between males and females was the fear of sexual assault, and based on coefficient comparison tests, fear of sexual assault was a stronger predictor of fear of other crimes among males than among females. The current study calls for future research to disentangle the shadow of sexual hypothesis in different settings and to conduct more studies specifically on men’s fear of crime.

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韩国男性和女性性侵犯假说阴影的检验

使用来自 2010 年全国犯罪受害者调查的韩国样本，当前的研究检查了对四种不同类型犯罪的恐惧的性别差异，以测试性侵犯论文的阴影，该论文断言性侵犯是女性的主要犯罪行为。当前的研究通过控制在这方面的文献中经常被忽略的各种协变量（例如，对邻里的看法和与犯罪相关的媒体消费）来深入了解影子假设的稳健性。结果表明，男性和女性之间最大的恐惧差异是对性侵犯的恐惧，基于系数比较检验，男性对性侵犯的恐惧比女性更能预测对其他犯罪的恐惧。