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    Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women's Lives
    Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women's Lives
    Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women's Lives
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    Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women's Lives

    By Esther Madriz

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    "The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing."—40-year-old woman

    This is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavior. Esther Madriz draws on focus groups and in-depth interviews to show the damage that fear can wreak on women of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. Although anxiety about crime affects virtually every woman, Madriz shows that race and class position play a role in a woman's sense of vulnerability.

    Fear of crime has resulted in public demand for stronger and more repressive policies throughout the country. As funds for social programs are cut, Madriz points out, those for more prisons and police are on the increase. She also illustrates how media images of victims—"good" victims aren't culpable, "bad" victims invite trouble—and a tough political stance toward criminals are linked to a general climate of economic uncertainty and conservatism.

    Madriz argues that fear itself is a strong element in keeping women in subservient and self-limiting social positions. "Policing" themselves, they construct a restricted world that leads to positions of even greater subordination: Being a woman means being vulnerable. Considering the enormous attention given to crime today, including victims' rights and use of public funds, Madriz's informative study is especially timely.

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.
    "The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing."—40-year-old woman

    This is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyd
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of California Press
    Release dateApr 28, 2023
    ISBN9780520918962
    Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women's Lives
    Author

    Esther Madriz

    Esther Madriz teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of San Francisco.

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