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Exploring Fear of Crime for Those Targeted by Romance Fraud
Victims & Offenders, 2022 This article assesses 3,259 romance fraud reports made by individuals to Scamwatch (Australian online reporting portal for fraud), between July 2018 – July 2019 (inclusive).
Cassandra Cross, Murray Lee
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Urbani Izziv, 2021 Safety is an important issue in large cities. Fear of crime, on the other hand, is an issue independent of actual crime rates, but it is directly related to spatial qualities, affecting people’s feelings of safety.
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Journal of Urban Affairs, 2021 Women generally feel more fearful than men. We study this so-called fear-gender gap, by contributing to a growing body of quantitative gender-sensitive research inspired by feminist theory.
Sofia Johansson, Karen Haandrikman
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Does Religious Involvement Generate or Inhibit Fear of Crime?
Religions, 2011 In victimology, fear of crime is understood as an emotional response to the perceived threat of crime. Fear of crime has been found to be affected by several variables besides local crime rates and personal experiences with victimization.
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Faktor Faktor Psikologis Dan Demografis Yang Mempengaruhi Fear Of Crime Mahasiswa
Tazkiya Journal of Psychology, 2019 This study aims to determine the effect of variable perception of neighborhood, personality, religiosity ,victimization and gender towards fear of crime on UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta students.The subject in this research are 289 students wich were ...
M Rasyid Ridha, S. Evangeline I. Suaidy
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Violence in Popular U.S. Prime Time TV Dramas and the Cultivation of Fear: A Time Series Analysis
Media and Communication, 2014 Gerbner and Gross’s cultivation theory predicts that prolonged exposure to TV violence creates fear of crime, symptomatic of a mean world syndrome. We tested the theory’s prediction in a time series model with annual changes in violence portrayal on ...
Daniel Romer, Patrick Jamieson
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Investigating the Relationship between Social and Cultural Capitals and Fear of Crime among Elderly People in Shiraz [PDF]
پژوهشهای راهبردی مسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2019 Introduction Fear of crime is fundamentally an emotional reaction accompanied with danger and anxiety. This phenomenon is not necessarily a real fear and it could be an expected one.
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Fear of Crime and Victimization: An Explorative Study
British Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2022 The fear of crime is a new dimension of crime. It is not only a burning issue in Bangladesh but also all over the world. Fear of crime was theorized to be related to experiences of victimization, but this assumption was soon to be disputed. This study is
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Are Children Safe from Crime?: Focusing on Streets in Elementary School Zones
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2017 The objective of this study was to determine street environments wherein fear of crime and actual crime are highest in the environments surrounding elementary schools.
Gidong Byun, Mikyoung Ha
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The relationship between likelihood and fear of criminal victimisation: evaluating risk sensitivity as a mediating concept [PDF]
, 2007 Crime surveys typically ask respondents how ‘likely’ they think it is that they will become a crime victim in the future. The responses are interpreted here as ‘risk’ statements.
Austen, L., Chadee, D., Ditton, J.
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