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초록

This study investigated the perceptions of criminal voyeurism(illegal shooting crime), and their relationships with gender and Ambivalent Sexism. A total of 291 males and females responded to the questionnaire. Questionnaire involved criminal motives, crime exposure experience, self-protection behavior, victim and perpetrator blame, responsibility, and sentence judgment. and Ambivalent Sexism scale. The independent sample t-test, chi-square test, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were used. Gender difference were found on perception of criminal voyeurism: Women and men differently perceived motives for criminal voyeurism. While Women reported more frequent experiences of witnessing criminal voyeurism than men did, men had more experience of watching criminal voyeurism shootings than women did. There was also a gender difference in the self-protection behaviors: Women reported more frequent and various self-protection behaviors. For Ambivalent Sexism attitude, males exhibited a higher Ambivalent Sexism attitude than females, both in Hostile and Benevolent Sexism. As to perception of criminal voyeurism, males tended to blame victims more for criminal voyeurism case than females, although sentencing judgement on criminal voyeurism did not differ by gender. According to correlation and regression analysis, perpetrator responsibility and victim blame was differently related by gender and Ambivalent Sexism sub-factor. Finally, practical and theoretical implications as well as limitations of this study were discussed.

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