CRIME AND FEAR: Evidence from Australia

Borooah, Vani K.; Carcach, Carlos A

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a014202

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“…As predicted, perceptions of incivilities were significantly associated with fear of crime in this research, supporting the incivilities thesis and previous research findings (Borooah and Carcach 1997;Carcach et al 1995;Kanan and Pruitt 2002;LaGrange et al 1992;McCrea et al 2005;Perkins and Taylor 1996;Robinson et al 2003;Taylor 1999;Wyant 2008). Consistent with previous research, gender and perceptions of incivilities were found to interact in predicting fear of crime (Carcach et al 1995).…”

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Australia: Identity, Fear and Governance in the 21st Century

Pietsch¹,

Aarons²

2012

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“…Perceptions of incivilities significantly predict fear of crime (Borooah and Carcach 1997;Carcach et al 1995 Gender may interact with perceived incivilities in influencing fear of crime. As noted earlier, on average, women experience higher levels of fear of crime than men.…”

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Australia: Identity, Fear and Governance in the 21st Century

Pietsch¹,

Aarons²

2012

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“…For instance, women and older people tend to feel more insecure (Carro et al, 2010;Borooah and Carcach, 1997), ethnic minorities tend to be more fearful (Brunton-Smith and Sturgis, 2011) as well as poor people (Pantazis, 2000), and that having some familiarity with the area reduces concerns about suffering a crime (Gilchrist et al, 1998). One of the most frequently considered causes of the fear of crime is media.…”

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Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Curiel

bishop

2018

Palgrave Commun

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There is often a mismatch between levels of crime and the fear of becoming a victim of crime. It is not uncommon to find individuals who suffer little or no crime but yet who are still fearful of some future crime. Alternatively, a place or region might see an increase in crime over time while the fear of crime remains unchanged. Building on a model that previously considered the fear of crime as an opinion shared by simulated individuals, here the impact that different distributions of crime have on the fear experienced by the population is analysed. Simulating the dynamics of the fear of individuals, along with changes of the distribution of crime, leads to results which show that fear is sensitive to the distribution of crime and that there is a phase transition for high levels of concentration of crime. A policy may be oriented to reduce crime, so that the population effectively suffers less crime, but if the victimisation is displaced to other individuals, then the perception of insecurity may not decrease, with fear becoming more widespread.

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“…Lay people are seen as unfortunately often failing to achieve this ideal, behaving 'irrationally' by responding with an inappropriate level of fear to crime. Reference is made to the 'paradox' that those individuals deemed to be at low risk of being victims of crime are most afraid of the possibility (see, for example, recent articles by Smith and Torstensson 1997;Borooah and Carcach 1997).…”

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Theorizing fear of crime: beyond the rational/irrational opposition

Lupton¹,

Tulloch

1999

British Journal of Sociology

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Much has been written about the 'social problem' of fear of crime in the criminological and sociological literature in recent years. We would argue that thus far in this literature, however, there has been too much emphasis on the question 'How rational is people's fear of crime?', a question that largely reduces the complexity of the phenomenon and positions a 'biased' lay response against an 'expert' objective judgment. In this article, we review different epistemological perspectives that can be offered to understand in greater depth the fear of crime phenomenon. We place particular emphasis on those hermeneutic perspectives that go beyond the models of the rationalist, individualistic subject to exploring issues of symbolic representation, discourse and the micro -and macro-contexts in which fear of crime is experienced and given meaning. We also draw upon two case studies from our own empirical research into fear of crime, conducted with the intention of exploring the situated narratives, cultural representations and different levels of symbolic meaning that contribute to the dynamic constitution of fear.

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CRIME AND FEAR: Evidence from Australia

Cited by 80 publications

References 27 publications

Australia: Identity, Fear and Governance in the 21st Century

Australia: Identity, Fear and Governance in the 21st Century

Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Theorizing fear of crime: beyond the rational/irrational opposition

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