Abstract
"Social Incivilities and Perception of Safety: A Qualitative Comparison between Commuters and Residents"
Highlights
An environment with its social and physical features plays a key role in affecting how safe the occupants perceive a place
Few studies have examined which social incivilities on campuses are gendered safety perception of college campuses has a large body of research
With respect to social disorder, the most frequent mentions were about homeless people, vendors, beggars, and a group of people standing on the corner
Summary
An environment with its social and physical features plays a key role in affecting how safe the occupants perceive a place. The current research assumes the time spent on campus may be a mitigating factor in the relationship between perception of safety and the gender of students. Fear-provoking social cues in the settings may have differential impacts on resident and commuter students of the same campus, regardless of gender. This study tests this assumption with student interviews in an open college campus of the Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Taking social incivilities into consideration, the current research contributes to the literature with a qualitative comparison of safety perception between residents and commuters on the same university campus. Findings help to focus on where to manage public behavior to modify the perceived safety
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