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Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime: The Role of Violent and Property Crime, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Prior Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime

open access: yesDeviant Behavior, 2021
Perceived unsafety, fear of crime, and avoidance were studied in relation to different types of crime, crime in different time perspectives, concentrated disadvantage, collective efficacy, urbanity, age structure, and neighborhood disorder.
Maria Camacho Doyle   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Menilik perasaan terancam bahaya kejahatan kriminal

open access: yesJurnal Ilmiah Psikologi Terapan, 2015
It has never been clear if today’s teenagers have fear of crime or not, in Indonesia. They can be subject of crimes and they can also be the offenders. The murder case of a female student aged about 18 years old showed that the offenders were the victim ...
Diantini Ida Viatrie
doaj   +1 more source

Young women’s site-specific fear of crime within urban public spaces in Seoul

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2021
Many studies revealed that vegetation in parks evokes fear of crime for women in a certain environmental context, and it significantly inhibits the restorative qualities of urban green spaces.
Young Hee Min, Gidong Byun, Mikyoung Ha
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Broken Windows and Collective Efficacy

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
The broken windows thesis posits that signs of disorder increase crime and fear, both directly and indirectly. Although considerable theoretical evidence exists to support the idea that disorder is positively related to fear of crime, the empirical ...
Aldrin Abdullah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The relationship between antisocial stereotypes and public CCTV systems: exploring fear of crime in the modern surveillance society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713647155~db=all Copyright Informa / Taylor and FrancisSituational crime deterrence measures like CCTV are not always associated with reductions in fear of crime.
Ahmed, J., Williams, D.
core   +1 more source

A REFLECTION ON SELECTED FEAR OF CRIME FACTORS IN LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA

open access: yesRussian Journal of Economics and Law, 2016
Objective: to analysis the fear of crime factors according to the research carried out in 2009 in Ljubljana (Slovenia).Methods: dialectic, systemic, comparison, observation.Results: the analysis shows that the level of fear of crime has not changed ...
G. Meško
doaj   +1 more source

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This chapter examines an approach to crime reduction which differs from many others in that it focuses, not on the offender or their reasoning for committing an offence, but upon the environment in which an offence takes place. This approach also differs
Bruinsma, G.J.N.   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Criminology
This article complements existing victimological studies on religion by investigating whether religion promotes or reduces fear of crime in Germany. According to the generalized insecurity approach and the theory of social production functions, religion ...
Jan-Philip Steinmann
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fear of street crime among Japanese mothers with elementary school children: A questionnaire survey using street montage photographs

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
Since physical crimes committed on the street against children typically occur during school commutes, there is an urgent need to address Japanese mothers’ fear of such crimes.
Yilin Huang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reassessing the Fear of Crime [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Criminology, 2008
A large body of empirical research exploring emotional responses to crime in Europe, North America and elsewhere suggests that substantial proportions of the public worry about victimization. The British Crime Survey (BCS) has asked questions exploring English and Welsh respondents' worry about crime since 1982, and in the 2003—4 sweep of the BCS new ...
Gray, Emily   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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