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Guys! Stop Doing It

Young Women's Adoption and Rejection of Safety Advice when Socializing in Bars, Pubs and Clubs

Bibliographic Data

ID8403199
AuthorsOona Brooks (0000-0002-8435-322X, Abertay University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume51
Issue4
Pages635-651
Publication date2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azr011
OpenAlexW2100735018
LanguageEN
Citations received46
References cited35

Concern about the increase in alcohol consumption amongst young women, drink spiking and drug-assisted sexual assault have culminated in a renewed focus on safety advice for young women. This paper examines young women's responses to safety advice, and their associated safety behaviours, by drawing upon interview and focus group data from a qualitative study with 35 young women (18–25 years) in relation to their safety in bars, pubs and clubs. The findings reveal that young women's behaviours were complex and contradictory in that they resisted, adopted and transgressed recommended safety behaviours. This raises interesting questions about both the practical and the theoretical implications of contemporary safety campaigns, challenging the prevailing focus on women's behaviour and the gendered discourse invoked by such campaigns.

Advice (programming) · Alcohol · Alcohol consumption · Consumption (sociology) · Developmental psychology · Focus (optics) · Focus group · Qualitative research · Sociology · Young adult · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology

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