{"title":"Resist, Remedy, or Retaliate? Perpetrators' Responses to Sexual Violence Confrontation by Women Ridesharing Drivers.","authors":"Jocelyn Elise Crowley","doi":"10.1177/10778012251391132","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One area where sexual abuse has been understudied is among women ridesharing drivers in the United States, where they commonly face what is known as technology-facilitated gender-based violence from mostly male riders. A key research question is how these male passengers respond when women drivers fight back through confrontation. This study uses 47 incidents of sexual abuse from 25 drivers from an online survey to demonstrate that perpetrators are most likely to <i>resist</i> (continue their abuse), followed by a smaller number where they attempt to <i>remedy</i> the situation, and least frequently <i>retaliate</i> against their drivers.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"5107-5135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Violence Against Women","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251391132","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/11/4 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"WOMENS STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
One area where sexual abuse has been understudied is among women ridesharing drivers in the United States, where they commonly face what is known as technology-facilitated gender-based violence from mostly male riders. A key research question is how these male passengers respond when women drivers fight back through confrontation. This study uses 47 incidents of sexual abuse from 25 drivers from an online survey to demonstrate that perpetrators are most likely to resist (continue their abuse), followed by a smaller number where they attempt to remedy the situation, and least frequently retaliate against their drivers.
期刊介绍:
Violence against Women is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. The journal assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infantcide, female circumcision, and female sexual slavery.