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Obscene or nuisance phone calls are particularly targeted towards women. Employing data from two sweeps of the British Crime Survey a decade apart (BCS 1982 and BCS 1992), this work attempts to measure the effects of individual socio-economic characteristics and victimization history of women in England and Wales on their likelihood of receiving at least one nuisance call. To make the logit modelling analysis more tangible, risks of nuisance calls are calculated from our models of five hypothetical women, single mother, professional, student, housewife and pensioner, with specific attributes taken from the set of explanatory variables.
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Tseloni, A., Pease, K. 'Nuisance' phone calls to women in England and Wales. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 6, 91–111 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008698918620
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