The Deterrent Effect of Ride-Sharing on Sexual Assault and Investigation of Situational Contingencies

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dc.contributor.authorPark, Jiyongko
dc.contributor.authorPang, Min-Seokko
dc.contributor.authorKim, Junetaeko
dc.contributor.authorLee, Byungtaeko
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-13T06:30:08Z-
dc.date.available2021-07-13T06:30:08Z-
dc.date.created2021-07-13-
dc.date.issued2021-06-
dc.identifier.citationINFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH, v.32, no.2, pp.497 - 516-
dc.identifier.issn1047-7047-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10203/286579-
dc.description.abstractSexual assault is one of the most repellant and costly crimes, which inflicts irrecoverable harms on victims and society. This study examines the effect of information technology (IT)-enabled ride-sharing platforms on sexual assaults. Drawing upon routine activity theory from the criminology literature, we posit that ride-sharing can reduce a passenger's risk of being a suitable target of sexual assault by providing a more reliable and timely transportation option for traveling to a safer place. By exploiting the nationwide quasi-experimental setting of Uber's city-by-city roilouts in the United States during 2005-2017, we demonstrate that Uber's entry into a city is negatively associated with the number of rape incidents. To zoom into the effects of ride-sharing at a more granular level, we employ precinct-hour-level data on Uber pickups and rape occurrences in New York City in 2015 and conduct spatiotemporal analyses. Our results from the spatiotemporal analyses corroborate those of the quasi-experiment and further reveal situational contingencies in the deterrent effect of ride-sharing. Specifically, ride-sharing contributes to a more significant reduction in the likelihood of rape occurrences in neighborhoods with limited transportation accessibility, and ride-sharing is more effective in deterring sexual crime in riskier circumstances, such as around alcohol-serving places on weekend nights or when the probability of crime occurrences increases. This study sheds new light on the potential of IT-enabled platforms to improve social well-being beyond their economic contributions and offers a new theoretical insight on the distinct role of digital platforms in public safety.-
dc.languageEnglish-
dc.publisherINFORMS-
dc.titleThe Deterrent Effect of Ride-Sharing on Sexual Assault and Investigation of Situational Contingencies-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.wosid000662862000013-
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-85109190621-
dc.type.rimsART-
dc.citation.volume32-
dc.citation.issue2-
dc.citation.beginningpage497-
dc.citation.endingpage516-
dc.citation.publicationnameINFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH-
dc.identifier.doi10.1287/isre.2020.0978-
dc.contributor.localauthorLee, Byungtae-
dc.contributor.nonIdAuthorPark, Jiyong-
dc.contributor.nonIdAuthorPang, Min-Seok-
dc.contributor.nonIdAuthorKim, Junetae-
dc.description.isOpenAccessN-
dc.type.journalArticleArticle-
dc.subject.keywordAuthorsharing-
dc.subject.keywordAuthorsharing economy-
dc.subject.keywordAuthorsexual assault-
dc.subject.keywordAuthorcriminology-
dc.subject.keywordAuthorroutine activity theory-
dc.subject.keywordAuthorsocietal impact of information technology-
dc.subject.keywordPlusROUTINE ACTIVITY THEORY-
dc.subject.keywordPlusCRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION-
dc.subject.keywordPlusHAILING SERVICES-
dc.subject.keywordPlusCRIME-
dc.subject.keywordPlusPOLICE-
dc.subject.keywordPlusINEQUALITY-
dc.subject.keywordPlusCOMPETITION-
dc.subject.keywordPlusMULTILEVEL-
dc.subject.keywordPlusPATTERNS-
dc.subject.keywordPlusTRANSIT-
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