TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Women's strategies addressing sexual harassment and assault on public buses: an analysis of crowdsourced data
JO  - Crime prevention and community safety
A1  - Lea, Suzanne Goodney
A1  - D'Silva, Elsa
A1  - Asok, Abhijith
SP  - 227
EP  - 239
VL  - 19
IS  - 3-4
N2  - 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 "making a scene" and "engaging the crowd" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1460-3780
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41300-017-0028-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -