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Fear of crime before ‘fear of crime?’
2017During the Victorian period, there were sporadic well-known ‘moral panics’ about violent crime, such as the outbreak of garrotting in the 1850s and 1860s. By the mid-nineteenth century the growth of the popular press ensured that concern and anxiety about crime and victimisation was a regular public debate, witness the Jack the Ripper scare in 1888 for
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Postvictimization Fear of Crime
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1989Many relatively mundane forms of victimization have attracted little research attention. This study concentrates on the differential effect of contact and noncontact victimization on people's fear of crime and perceptions of their social and physical environment.
ADRI VAN DER WURFF, PETER STRINGER
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2014
According to Hale ( 1996) and Farrall, Gray, and Jackson ( 2007), fear of crime (FOC) refers to the fear of being a victim of crime as opposed to the actual probability of being a victim of crime, while according to Ferraro ( 1995, p. 24), FOC is an emotional response expressed in the form of “dread” of becoming a victim of crime or anxiety toward ...
Franc, Renata, Sučić, Ines
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According to Hale ( 1996) and Farrall, Gray, and Jackson ( 2007), fear of crime (FOC) refers to the fear of being a victim of crime as opposed to the actual probability of being a victim of crime, while according to Ferraro ( 1995, p. 24), FOC is an emotional response expressed in the form of “dread” of becoming a victim of crime or anxiety toward ...
Franc, Renata, Sučić, Ines
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annual review of criminology, 2019
Broken windows theory (BWT) has heavily influenced social science and policy over the past 30 years. It posits that disorder in neighborhoods leads to elevated crime by inviting additional criminal activity and by discouraging the positive social ...
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Broken windows theory (BWT) has heavily influenced social science and policy over the past 30 years. It posits that disorder in neighborhoods leads to elevated crime by inviting additional criminal activity and by discouraging the positive social ...
D. O’Brien +2 more
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Mapping fear of crime: defining methodological orientations
Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2023J. Noble, A. Jardin
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The Geography of Women’s Fear of Crime: Spatial Confidence and Constraints
International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2023Rashmi Rai, A. Rai, Animesh Bhakta
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The British Journal of Criminology, 1988
The authors construct a model for explaining "fear" of crime by using the relevant literature to identify possible factors and making out a prima facie case for each by examining data from the second British Crime Survey. Using logit analysis this model is tested on data derived from the same survey.
STEVEN BOX, CHRIS HALE, GLEN ANDREWS
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The authors construct a model for explaining "fear" of crime by using the relevant literature to identify possible factors and making out a prima facie case for each by examining data from the second British Crime Survey. Using logit analysis this model is tested on data derived from the same survey.
STEVEN BOX, CHRIS HALE, GLEN ANDREWS
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Police Quarterly, 2007
This study addresses whether residents' perceptions of informal neighborhood social control or police and government activities in their neighborhood provides a stronger explanation of their emotional fear of crime. Survey data from 505 residents from 10 diverse neighborhoods are used to test the relationship between informal and formal social control
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This study addresses whether residents' perceptions of informal neighborhood social control or police and government activities in their neighborhood provides a stronger explanation of their emotional fear of crime. Survey data from 505 residents from 10 diverse neighborhoods are used to test the relationship between informal and formal social control
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