Abstract
Women's reported level of fear of crime is three times higher than reported by men. Crime surveys though show that it is young men who are at greatest risk to violent victimisation. This paper explores this criminological conundrum of women's fear of crime. It proposes that the analysis and the construction of the concept 'fear of crime' fail to capture women's lived experiences of sexual and physical violence. It further examines the crime prevention advice to women and concludes that this advice is founded upon faulty assumptions about what types of situations pose the greatest danger to women's sexual and physical safety. Conventional criminology and its adherence to the view of violent crime as 'street crime,' the paper concludes, distorts and sensationalizes violence against women.
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