Sentences with phrase «between fear of crime»

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As a Brooklyn rape case has grown more complicated, some members of the community have found themselves torn between a gut reaction to support the 18 - year - old alleged victim and nagging fears about a rush to judgment against the five teenagers accused of a heinous crime.

«Our research suggests that the relationship between feelings of vulnerability, as measured by fear of crime, and women's preference for physically formidable and dominant mates is stable, and does not update according to environmental circumstances or relative level of protection needed.»

However, the relationship between PPFDM and fear did not vary in relation to risk situation, perpetrator gender, or crime type, suggesting that the psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between perceived risk of victimisation and PPFDM are general in nature.

’27 For that reason, the RPF government has been arguing that those who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, regardless of their well - founded and reasonable fear to repatriate, «have a dark, ugly past to hide and are running away from prosecution» but not persecution.28 Whereas it can not be denied that some genocide perpetrators remain at large, it can strongly be argued that a list of Hutu refugees who were suspected of having committed genocide crimes was established and thus handed out by the RPF government to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).