Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Curiel, Rafael Prieto; bishop,

doi:10.1057/s41599-018-0094-8

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“…The city of Balmazújváros is a good example on relatively strong connection between local unsafe markings and crime incident numbers, while having weak connection between crime events and local safe markings. It is, therefore, an example of feeling local fear, where crime events in fact happen, and perceiving safety, where crime incidents are rare, which is similar to some literature findings [46,54]. ,372 ** ,000 ,381 ** ,000 **.…”

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GIS-Based Statistical Analysis of Detecting Fear of Crime with Digital Sketch Maps: A Hungarian Multicity Study

Jakobi

Pődör

2020

IJGI

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This study evaluates fear of crime perception and official crime statistics in a spatial context, by applying digital sketch maps and statistical GIS methods. The study aims to determine explanatory motives of fear of crime by comparing results of selected large, medium and small sized Hungarian cities. Fear of crime information of residents were collected by using a web application, which gave the possibility to mark regions on a map, where respondents have a sense of safety or feel fear. These digital sketch maps were processed by GIS tools, and were converted to grid data, in order to calculate comparable explanatory variables for fear of crime analysis. The grid-based normalised model reflected some similarities and differences between the observed cities. According to the outcomes, examples were found both in coincidences and opposite correlations of crime statistics and perception of unsafe places, highlighting the importance of locality in fear of crime research. Additionally, the results mirrored that the size of the city or the respondent's sex does not significantly influence the overall judgment of places, rather the absolute number of safe markings and the local number of registered crime events could affect local results.Although numerous studies have proved that various spatial factors can trigger fear of crime, the fact is that crime rates in certain areas are not necessarily as high as expected [16,17], consequently, additional explanatory factors should be considered as well. Doran and Lees [18], for example, found relationship between fear of crime and physical disorder. Later, Doran and Burgess [3] proved that the environment in general plays an important role in fear of crime. It was recently shown that even improvements in the environment can have a positive effect on reducing fear of crime [19]. Furthermore, a large amount of studies confirmed that fears of crime are concentrated in areas, which can be described by definite environmental characteristics. For example Lederer and Leitner [20] concluded that fear of being a victim of burglary can be assigned to well-defined geographical hot spots, as well as it is connected with definite statistical features and even with areas having less technical protection.A typical problem of mapping fear of crime, though, is the lack of data on location perceptions. In many countries police have not completed any survey on this topic, therefore, their own data surveys should be made to accumulate information from, e.g., questionnaires [21] or from digital sketch maps, which would conceivably quantify-in a specific way-the level and the area of fear of crime within a city [22][23][24][25][26]. Additionally, several contemporary research papers on fear of crime apply modern IT technologies to draw a more precise picture of the issue. For example Solymosi et al. [27] developed a FOCA application (fear of crime application), which investigates fear of crime as a dynamic phenomenon by tracing the participants' activities, and in this way, the avoidance of ce...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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GIS-Based Statistical Analysis of Detecting Fear of Crime with Digital Sketch Maps: A Hungarian Multicity Study

Jakobi

Pődör

2020

IJGI

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“…Understanding people's responses to the fear of crime [1] is important for understanding behaviours which reflect this concern. The fear of crime is one of the essential concepts of Criminology, and is often described as an emotional response to potential victimisation [2]. Historically, the fear of crime was defined as the likelihood of the risk [3,4].…”

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Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Pánek

Ivan

Macková

2019

IJGI

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The fear of crime is an established research topic, not only in sociology, environmental psychology and criminology, but also in GIScience. Using spatial analysis to analyse patterns, explore hotspots and determine the significance of respective surveys is one reason for the increase in popularity of such research topics for geographers, cartographers and spatial data scientists. This paper presents the results of an intensive online map-based questionnaire with 1551 respondents from the city of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The respondents marked 3792 points associated with the fear of crime over a ten week period. The perception data were compared with recorded crime data acquired from police department records for the years 2015–2018. This paper explores the spatial autocorrelation from perceived hotspots and from recorded crime hotspots. Our findings fit into the literature confirming results about the locations that most frequently attract fear, but there is still room for more investigations regarding the links between recorded crime and the fear of crime.

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“…A given urban infrastructure may be linked to other cities and countries, forming in the process, what could be labeled as regional, national, or global infrastructures. If specific to the corporate world, one could speak of industrial or corporate digital infrastructures [36]. Such infrastructures are complex systems consisting of many subsystems, networked computers, controllers, sensors, and devices, which amass and crunch data, and transmit processed data, alternately called "information" [37].…”

Section: Digital City Infrastructurementioning

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Blending Human Ware with Software and Hardware in the Design of Smart Cities

Almusaed¹,

Almssad²

2023

Sustainable Smart Cities - A Vision for Tomorrow

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Sustainable innovation entails realizing society-oriented value creation in an environment-friendly manner. A smart city can be viewed as a holistic paradigm that avails of state-of-the-art information and communication technologies (ICTs, in other words) to advance the so-called “Internet of Things.” This aids the management of urban processes and improves the quality of life for the citizens. Smart cities are bound to keep getting “smarter” as the ICTs keep developing. While the technological factor represented by the IoT, augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, urban digital twinning, cloud computing, and mobile Internet is a driving factor unarguably, innovation in urban ecology is a vital socio-economic factor that will spur the transformation of urban areas in the world to smart cities. In this chapter, the authors answer the “what,” how, and “who,” so to say, of the paradigm—smart cities—with real-life examples and a case study. They emphasize the importance of human ware and remind readers that technology—the all-encompassing Internet of Things with its infantry of cameras, sensors, and electronic devices—though powerful, is a humble servant in the service of the inhabitants of a smart city.

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Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Cited by 27 publications

References 43 publications

GIS-Based Statistical Analysis of Detecting Fear of Crime with Digital Sketch Maps: A Hungarian Multicity Study

GIS-Based Statistical Analysis of Detecting Fear of Crime with Digital Sketch Maps: A Hungarian Multicity Study

Comparing Residents’ Fear of Crime with Recorded Crime Data—Case Study of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Blending Human Ware with Software and Hardware in the Design of Smart Cities

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