Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk

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State University of New York Press, 1995年3月9日 - 195 頁
Ferraro examines how people interpret their risk of criminal victimization and identifies who is most likely to be afraid of crime. Although many previous studies of fear of crime do not explicitly consider the concept of risk or perceived risk in estimating the prevalence of fear, the approach taken here considers perceived risk as central to the entire interpretive process. It links national survey data on how people think about crime to official crime rates in America, and uses the comprehensive set of environmental and personal variables on a nationally representative sample to examine how fear develops for ten different types of crime.
 

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Acknowledgments χυ
1
Measuring Risk and Fear of Crime
21
Official and Perceived Victimization Risk
41
Hitting Paydirt with Risk Interpretation?
53
Are Older People Prisoners of Fear?
67
Unraveling Fear of Crime Among Women
85
Constraints on Daily Living
101
Implications from
117
Appendix
127
Appendix
139
Notes
147
References
159
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Kenneth F. Ferraro is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University.

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