UNTIL THE DOOR IS CLOSED?: WOMEN‘S FEAR OF CRIME IN ANKARA

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2023-9

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Becerikli, Ceyda

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The main objective of this study is to examine women's fear of crime in urban public space as a spatial reflection of patriarchal relations that affect women's everyday experience of urban public space. This study endeavors to understand how women's fear of crime affects their experience of urban public space, namely the use of public space, safety concerns, mobility opportunities, mechanisms of coping with it in the case of Ankara by presenting findings based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with twenty-one women were conducted in face-to-face through using a feminist standpoint theory as a methodology. Women's fear of being exposed to crime differs from the fear of being exposed to male violence, sexual assault and harassment and limits their free use of urban public space. In this regard, this study aims to understand how women experience the geography of urban public space with their mental maps of safety and how they deal with the fear of being exposed to crime through women's actual experiences. As the research findings support, women's fear of crime differentiates their experience of urban geography from that of men and ensures the perpetuation of the patriarchal status quo in society. In this context, the aim of the study is to ensure the development of a comprehensive framework for the understanding of the urban public space and of gender relations.

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fear of crime, women, public space, urban, male violence

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105471

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis