Crime Victimization and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Happiness Data

Putting a Price Tag on Security: Subjective Well-Being and Willingness-to-Pay for Crime Reduction in Europe

“…As life satisfaction is measured on an ordinal scale, equation (3) should be estimated by means of ordered probit or ordered logit regression (Van Praag and Baarsma, 2005;Kuroki, 2013). However, previous studies have shown that it makes little difference whether life satisfaction is treated as an ordinal or interval scale (see e.g.…”

“…However, one potential problem of this measure is individuals erroneously mis-reporting on the victimization question due to the long period of inquiry, which would lead to either an over-or under-estimation depending on whether an under-or over-reporting of crimes dominates. Furthermore, it is not entirely clear what effect the victimization variable captures, as it includes two kinds of offences and respondents mightdue to unfamiliarity with the legal definitions -not correctly differentiate them from other categories of crime and thus incorrectly report victimization (Kuroki, 2013).…”

“…income enhances and crime diminishes life satisfaction rather than vice versa. In the latter case, there would be an over-estimation of the causal effect of crime on life satisfaction, particularly for fear of crime, since unhappiness might cause individuals to be more anxious (Kuroki, 2013;Davies and Hinks, 2010). However, there are no studies addressing the potential reverse causation for fear and life satisfaction.…”

“…3 To date, a limited number of studies have applied the LSA to evaluate different phenomena related to crime and safety (cp. Powdthavee, 2005;Moore, 2006;Frey et al, 2009;Cohen, 2008;Kuroki, 2013;Cheng and Smyth, 2015), while a number of studies investigate the effect of crime on different subjective well-being measures without valuing the estimated effect in monetary terms (see e.g. Michalos and Zumbo, 2000;Sulemana, 2015;Stickley et al, 2015).…”

La inseguridad subjetiva como mediadora del bienestar social y clima emocional

“…Abundante literatura da cuenta de los efectos del crimen y la victimización sobre distintos aspectos de la vida de las personas, que van desde daños físicos y económicos (por la sustracción objetiva de los bienes, pérdida de tiempo laboral y gastos médicos por heridas ocasionadas) hasta morales y psicológicos (Freeman, 1999). Además, muchos estudios se han centrado en las consecuencias de la victimización sobre el bienestar de las personas (Cohen, 2008;Hanslmaier, 2013;Hanson, Sawyer, Begle, & Hubel, 2010;Kuroki, 2013;Staubli, Killias, & Frey, 2014), evidenciando que tanto el haber sido víctima directa como indirecta tiene importantes implicancias en la salud de las personas, dado que en ambos casos disminuye la percepción de calidad de vida, la satisfacción y la felicidad. en el bienestar.…”