NCJ Number
100681
Journal
Howard Jounal Volume: 24 Issue: 4 Dated: (1985) Pages: 275-281
Date Published
1985
Length
7 pages
Annotation
Data from the British Crime Survey are analyzed which suggest that approximately 10 percent of women with access to a private telephone receive obscene calls per year.
Abstract
Young and middle-aged women, separated and divorced women, and women living in inner cities, are more prone to victimization, suggesting that some recipients of obscene calls are known to the caller. Women who have received obscene calls are more worried about burglary of their empty home, sex offenses, ''possible sexual' assault, and mugging than are women not receiving calls. It is suggested that it would be helpful to know more detail about patterns of victimization: for example, do ex-directory numbers ever receive obscene calls? (Author abstract)