Fear of Crime Among Chinese Immigrants

Yun, Ilhong; Kercher, Glen; Swindell, Sam

doi:10.1080/15377931003760989

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“…Second, the crime and justice model suggests that people's experience with crime and criminal justice agencies, particularly the police, is critical to their fear of crime. Some studies report that victimization is positively related to fear (Skogan and Maxfield, ; Yun, Kercher, and Swindell, ), while others indicate that groups with the lowest victimization rates (e.g., elderly women) harbor the greatest fear (Lee and Ulmer, ; Warr, ). Neither personal violent victimization nor property victimization are found to be significant correlates of Chinese fear of crime, after controlling for perceived neighborhood disorder (Liu, ).…”

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Media Consumption and Fear of Crime in a Large Chinese City

Triplett

et al. 2019

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. While empirical research on Chinese people's perceptions of crime has developed encouragingly during the past decade, an important issue regarding correlates of such fear -the media effect, frequently found by the Western literature as a critical source of fear -has largely eluded scholarly attention. This study investigates the effects of consumption of different media types on Chinese fear of crime, while taking a wide range of other theoretically relevant and empirically validated factors into consideration. Methods. Relying on data collected from a sample of residents in a large Chinese city, this study uses ordinary least squares regression to investigate the correlates of fear of crime. Results. Consumption of newspapers and radio reports of news is associated with lower levels of fear, and consumption of political and social news from television and the Internet is connected to higher levels of fear of crime. The vulnerability model, crime and justice model, and community model have also received some support in these data. Conclusion. This study provides robust support for the importance of the media in shaping public fear of crime, and indicates that the cultural context in which the media reports on crime is critical to understanding its role and impact.

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Media Consumption and Fear of Crime in a Large Chinese City

Triplett

et al. 2019

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Prior research has continuously demonstrated that victims of crime are more likely to have less favorable perceptions of police (Brown & Benedict, 2002;Cao et al, 1996;Carter, 1985;Geistman & Smith, 2007;Hurst & Frank, 2000;Vogel, 2011;Wu et al, 2009) and to be more fearful of crime than those who have not been victimized (Yun, Kercher, & Swindell, 2010). These issues are particularly salient considering it has been suggested Hispanics are disproportionally victimized (e.g.…”

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Perceptions of Police Among Hispanic Immigrants of Mexican Origin in the Southeast United States

2015

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Studies have repeatedly shown that members of minority groups are likely to hold less favorable perceptions of the police than their white counterparts. Relying on a unique sample of nearly 70 Hispanic immigrants, this study expands current knowledge on correlates of Hispanics' perceptions of police. Overall, findings of this study indicate Hispanic immigrants of Mexican descent generally hold favorable views of the police. Results also suggest, however, that those who came to the US through illegal channels are significantly less likely to hold positive perceptions of police than those who relocated through legal channels. Furthermore, a preliminary analysis to assess the level of understanding that Hispanic immigrants have of police, including their role and function in American society, was conducted. Findings indicate there is a high level of misunderstanding concerning police services among this population. Based on our results, we discuss policy implications and future directions for research.

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“…In coming up with research variables this study was guided by most of the literatures from criminology studies, as they are the ones associated with in uence on safety and security issues, we opted to choose this way of thinking because literature indicates that IS belong to special minority group that are socially vulnerable by applying the vulnerability theory which has been used in many safety and security studies from all over the world [33][34][35] . Literature indicates that government policies, measures and actions are one of the major contributing factors that may in uence safety and security of the country in general at a national level and of its citizen, furthermore, the policies may also in uence foreigners safety and security perceptions in times of wars, epidemics and pandemics or any disasters 24,[36][37][38] , to the extents that if well implemented and followed they may even reduce the spread of pandemics like of that of COVID-19 infectious disease 38 .…”

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“…The other variables of the study were (i) gender where the literatures indicates that male have higher safety perception as compared to female, (ii) age where old people have high safety perception than younger ones, (iii) education level where those with high education level have high safety perception than those with low education levels, (iv) length of stay, where those that have more stayed have higher safety perceptions as compared with those with no more experience, (v) marital status where the literature indicates that those that are married have higher safety perception as compared to those that are not married 34,41,46,47 , (vi) regional comparison, where the literature has indicated that even a location where people are located with an area, i.e. those that may be close to military base may feel high security than others, those that are located far from pandemics starts points may have higher security perception than others 30,41,48 .…”

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Effects of government actions on safety and security perceptions of international students during COVID-19 pandemic in China

Shi

Munthali

Xuelian

et al. 2021

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Introduction: International students’ safety and security matters as they are migrants and foreigners belonging to a special minority group of people that need to be protected each and every time in breach of which may have diplomatic and international endeavors. This study was aimed at finding the effects of government actions in regards to safety and security perceptions of international students in China during COVID-19 Pandemic. Materials and methods: A cross- sectional design survey was conducted in March 2020 from 13 different universities in Hubei province of China. Data was collected through an online Microsoft questionnaire which was send to selected universities groups that were purposively and conveniently sampled. IBM SPSS version 24 software was used to analyses the data; Pearson correlational was performed at statistical significance put at*p<0.05; **p<0.01. Results: 300 questionnaires were received out of 392, representing a response rate of 76.5%, majority of the respondents were in age group of 20-30 86%, single 93%, undergraduate 79%, stayed 2 years above 61%, belonging to Christianity 51.7% and Islam 37%. Furthermore, there was a positive correlation between social distance measures and safety and security perceptions, but there was no correlation between information dissemination and safety and security perception, lastly, the results showed that students were materially supported with their respective authorities and that the political will was good. Conclusion: The actions of the government especially through the social distance measures have proved to positively increase international students’ safety and security perceptions. Further, authorities tried to facilitate material and social support to the students. We recommend authorities to continue putting the safety and security of international students at their heart as it is demonstrated in China.

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Fear of Crime Among Chinese Immigrants

Cited by 32 publications

References 38 publications

Media Consumption and Fear of Crime in a Large Chinese City

Media Consumption and Fear of Crime in a Large Chinese City

Perceptions of Police Among Hispanic Immigrants of Mexican Origin in the Southeast United States

Effects of government actions on safety and security perceptions of international students during COVID-19 pandemic in China

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