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Coping with urban crime: Women's use of precautionary behaviors

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  1. Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, USA

    Stephanie Riger

  2. Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2040 Sheridan Road, 60201, Evanston, Illinois

    Stephanie Riger, Margaret T. Gordon & Robert K. LeBailly

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This research was partially supported by NIMH grant #R01 MH29620. The authors thank Wesley G. Skogan, Mary Rogel, and Paul Lavrakas for helpful comments.

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Riger, S., Gordon, M.T. & LeBailly, R.K. Coping with urban crime: Women's use of precautionary behaviors. Am J Commun Psychol 10, 369–386 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00893977

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