@article{ref1,
title="Women's strategies addressing sexual harassment and assault on public buses: an analysis of crowdsourced data",
journal="Crime prevention and community safety",
year="2017",
author="Lea, Suzanne Goodney and D'Silva, Elsa and Asok, Abhijith",
volume="19",
number="3-4",
pages="227-239",
abstract="This paper uses crowdsourced data on women's self-reports of harassment and assault on public buses in India. The data provide a basis to identify the strategies that women use to respond to and manage this everyday threat. The study examines 137 accounts of assault collected by a crowdsourced platform in which women detail, keeping silent (n = 27), fleeing (n = 38), or resisting (n = 72) such an assault. <br><br>FINDINGS show that confronting incidents in the moment by &quot;making a scene&quot; and &quot;engaging the crowd&quot; works well in the closed, shared-space setting of a crowded public bus. The study concludes by asserting crowdmapping as a multi-faceted tool: it can allow women to be aware of potentially dangerous locales, empowers them to report incidents to help keep others safe, and provides a source of data to advise on best practices for navigating street harassment and assault in public buses.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1460-3780",
doi="10.1057/s41300-017-0028-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41300-017-0028-1"
}