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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"fear of crime"”.
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Fear of crime in Ulundi
Fear of crime has become a much documented crime related problem. It can lead to avoidance behaviour, for example when normal social activities are curtailed and certain areas are avoided. Lewis and Salem (1986:3) conclude that "fear of crime [has become] as much of a social problem as the crime …
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Fear of crime in Virginia
Fear of crime is as much a reality as crime itself. Our reactions to the problem of crime may influence or interfere with our day-to-day activities. Yet not everyone is a victim of crime, nor does everyone perceive crime as being a serious problem. The author tests hypotheses about the …
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Fear of crime : a socio-criminological investigation
… personal security is basic to the quality of life of a community. If the quality of life is affected by crime or the fear of criminal victimisation, then both crime and the fear of crime should be viewed as a social problem. The fear of crime is the focus point of this study as it produces …
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Fear of Crime Through the Ears of a Murderino: The Effect of True Crime Podcasts on Fear of Crime
<p>The purpose of this study was to explore levels and correlates of fear of crime among a sample of individuals who listen to true crime podcasts. An online survey was used to gauge respondents' levels of fear of crime before and after listening to a true crime audio podcast entitled <em>My …
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A Geography of Fear of Crime in Maynooth
Geography of crime is not a new addition to the discipline of geography, many studies, mostly empirical in nature and carried out by male geographers, have been conducted in the past. Fear of crime is however regarded as a newcomer, especially in feminist studies. Geography has tended to ignore the …
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The relationship between individual, neighborhood, and city characteristics and fear of crime
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of individual, neighborhood, and city characteristics on fear of crime. While previous research has shown which factors predict fear of crime at each level, few have considered all levels simultaneously to discover which characteristics predict …
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The Anglophone armed conflict: an immediate peril and fear of crime in Bafut
Colonialism brought about some of the worst crimes against humanity in Africa, Cameroon, and Bafut. Cameroon is still implementing some of its strategies and tactics, with rising state crimes leading to the fear of crime in most Anglophone regions, with Bafut as one of the hot spots. Bafut is a …
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Street design, traffic, and fear of crime : moving from gated communities to transit villages
The first phase of Tren Urbano, a rail rapid transit system in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is currently under construction, with future phases in the planning stages. San Juan's built landscape is presently dominated and dramatically fragmented by gated developments, which poses fundamental problems for …
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Cross-National Fear of Crime Among Women: An Examination of Structural and Individual-Level Causes
… has confirmed that structural attributes of nations, as well as individual characteristics of people contribute to levels of fear of crime, across both nations and individuals. Specifically, in regard to the effects structural characteristics have on fear, gender equality has been shown to …
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Exploring Fear of Crime on Interactional Patterns and Psychological Well-Being within a South African Student Population.
The rise in crime rates in South Africa has led to an increased sense of fear, avoidance, and a lack of trust and social cohesion. However, despite the growing crime rates, limited research exists on how this fear affects students' interactions with their environment and society, particularly …
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THE IMPACT OF DISORDER ON FEAR OF CRIME: A TEST OF THE FIRST LINK OF BROKEN WINDOWS
… and Kelling, 1982) suggests that disorder causes fear of crime to increase in a community, starting a chain of events that eventually leads to an increase in crime in the neighborhood. This thesis aims to improve our knowledge of the relationship between disorder and fear of crime in the context …
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Fear No Evil: Making Sense of Intersectionality and Fear of Crime Amongst Blacks in High Crime Neighborhoods
The extant literature on fear of crime has relied almost entirely upon quantitative data and was criticized as atheoretical due to its focus on the demographic characteristics associated with vulnerability. Emerging qualitative research on fear of crime has begun to overcome this limitation by …
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Fuelling the Fire: The effects of Instagram discourse about farm attacks on levels of fear of crime and victimisation
… attacks are a contentious issue in South African crime discourse. 1 Despite having similar characteristics to home invasions or hijackings in urban areas, popular and academic narratives around farm attacks are woven with broader concerns relating to identity politics, land restitution, minority …
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Victimization, Fear of Crime, and Perception of Risk in the Workplace: Testing Rival Theories with a Sample of Greek and Greek-Cypriot Journalists
… study at hand assessed the relative importance of situational and dispositional factors in predicting victimization, perceived risk, and fear of crime at work as a first step to developing practices and procedures that minimize employees' experiences of workplace victimization. The theoretical …
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A Capability Approach to Examining the Effects of Actual and Anticipated Fear of Crime: Experiences and Perceptions of Black Female Youth in the Cape Flats
The purpose of this study was to examine how the fear of crime affects the capabilities, perceptions and experiences of black female youth, living in the Cape Flats, Cape Town. Qualitative semi structured interviews were conducted with 18 black female participants between the ages of 18 to 30. This …
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Far from home, safe from home?? An exploration into fear of crime within African refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrant groups living in Cape Town, South Africa
… Between 2008 and 2022, there have been instances of mass xenophobic violence directed at African migrants living in South Africa leading to the continual marginalisation of vulnerable groups such as refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. This marginalisation has in turn heightened …
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