ABSTRACT
This chapter reports the results of a survey on sexual transit crime with 557 undergraduate and graduate students across the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, Brazil – two-thirds of them were women. A large share of the students (22.6%) reported being part of the LGBTQI community. About 41% of the female respondents had been victims of sexual abuse or harassment on the bus/subway/train/monorail, at the bus stop/platform or while walking to/from the bus stop/train station, but only about 13% of the female students who were victimized reported it to anyone. Three-quarters (76%) of the women students felt it was necessary to take precautions against crime while riding the bus system, while only 56% of men did so. During the day, 59% of women and 79% of men felt safe on the bus “always” or “often,” but after dark, those numbers dropped significantly: only 15% of the women and 45% of men felt safe. The chapter briefly summarizes the main findings from the case study and makes suggestions for research and practice.
