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The unprovoked attack had deadly consequences. Sarika and her friends walking towards a juice bar. Meeting in Chennai, India some of the young mem-īers who left the meeting in an auto encountered On July 18 1998, after a Youth Congress (YC) In 1998, describes the tragic outcome of one case of The following story, printed in the India Express Spaces and transportation systems in South Asia (policeĪcademy 1979 Shah 1993 Gender Study 1996 BaxiĢ001). However, little is written on the geography of gender-īased crime (referred to as “ Eve teasing”) in the public Indian society and the workplace (Gangoli 2007 mohanĢ006 puri 1999 mandelbaum 1986 Omvedt 1980).

(Loukaitou-Sideris 2005 Wesley and Garder 2004 Women are fearful of crime and vulnerable to assault The sociology, anthropology, andĬriminology literature of the West has emphasized that Public space because these encounters are “unpredict-Īble, potentially uncontrollable and hence threatening” The fear is provoked through encounters with men in Important concerns for women around the world (Lou. Researchers have indicated that women’s security needs are different from men’s (Brooks 1997 Smith 2008). The nature and frequency of sexual harassment and sug. Women (more than 40%) rated their worst harassmentĮxperiences to be in buses and trains with no separate Respondents first encountered sexual harassment during The study found 66% of the surveyed respondents hadīeen sexually harassed while commuting. Ment faced by women commuters in Chennai, India. Of this paper is to elicit information on sexual harass. Indian society and the workplace than on gender-basedĬrime (referred to as “Eve teasing”) in the public spacesĪnd transportation systems in South Asia. Has focused more on the subordinate role of women in Lable and hence threatening.” The South Asian literature Provoked through encounters with men in public spaceīecause they are “unpredictable, potentially uncontrol. Partheeban, Sriram Engineering College, Perumalpattu, Chennai, Indiaįear of victimization and crime are important concernsįor women in cities around the world, and this fear is Sheila mitra-Sarkar, San Diego State University, California Understanding the Problem of “Eve Teasing” in Chennai, India Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages. Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book.