Measuring Citizens’ Fear of Crime Using a Web Application: A Case Study

Pődör, Andrea; Révész, András; Rácskai, Patrik; Sasvár, Zita

doi:10.1553/giscience2016_02_s123

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“…The allocation of hotspots in relation to the perception of safety (Figure 3) did not provide many surprises, and the results are in accordance with the results from other fear of crime research, not only in the Czech Republic [52,57,58], but also in other countries [59][60][61]. The usual suspects are transportation hubs, in this case they are train/bus stations, urban parks (mainly during the night), shadowy narrow streets with limited public lighting and/or public spaces in close proximity to nightclubs/bars/gambling houses.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

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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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

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 data used in this research was collected in 2017 and is constrained to the city of Budapest 2 . Budapest, is selected as the most crime affected city in Hungary, but not researched extensively [18]. The survey requested to draw a digital structured sketch map over a web-based map, in which the participant indicated the areas that (s)he perceives as unsafe or safe.…”

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confidence: 99%

Analysis and mapping of crime perception: A quantitative approach of sketch maps

Velazquez

Kounadi

Pődör

2020

AGILE GIScience Ser.

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Abstract. Evidence exists that people’s perception of crime is not often consistent with the actual incidents statistics, and there is a tendency of underestimating or overestimating safety. We examine a phenomenon called the crime perception gap via participatory geographical information derived from sketch maps. The study area is Budapest, Hungary for which data were collected via a participatory platform in 2017 on the perception of safe and unsafe places. The methodology consisted of three stages; exploratory modeling, the spatial delineation of the gap, and the spatial exploration of inaccurate perceptions in relation to their surrounding environment. In stage one, we found that the variable with the highest impact on perception is the daily route. The further away a place is to personal routes the more likely it is to be perceived as unsafe. In the second stage, we computed and mapped the perceptual accuracy. The overall perceptual accuracy was as low as 39%, while many safe places were wrongly perceived as unsafe (also unsafe ones as safe). In the third stage, we identified that significant spatial patterns seem to have a diffusion effect on people’s perception. For example, a safe place could be perceived as unsafe because the neighboring places are crime hotspots (and vice versa). We argue that misperception of crime can have repercussions on peoples’ lifestyles, affect social behavior and spatial and economic dynamics. Thus, spatial analysis and mapping can be used to support police agencies in the development of strategies to reduce the misperception of crime.

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“…When it comes to a research on how citizens perceive crime in the area where they live, there is a great body of literature related to exploration of citizens' fear of crimes and their perception of dangerous places [17][18][19][20]. However, evaluations of the accuracy of frontline police officers' perception related to hotspots are rare in the scientific literature.…”

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An Assessment of Police Officers’ Perception of Hotspots: What Can Be Done to Improve Officer’s Situational Awareness?

Ilijazi

Milić

Milidragović

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IJGI

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The idea behind patrol activity is that police officers should be the persons best acquainted with the events and people in their patrol area. This implies that they should have access to relevant data and information (e.g., where and how to pay attention, when and how crimes are committed) in order to effectively perform their police duties. To what extent their perceptions of the places prone to crime (hotspots) are accurate and what the implications are for police efficiency if they are incorrect is an important question for law enforcement officials. This paper presents the results of a study on police practice in Serbia. The study was conducted on a sample of 54 police officers and aimed to determine the accuracy of the perception of residential burglary hotspots and to evaluate the ways police officers are informed about crimes. The results of the study have shown that the situational awareness of police officers is not at a desired level, with ineffective dissemination of relevant data and information as one of the possible reasons.

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Measuring Citizens’ Fear of Crime Using a Web Application: A Case Study

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

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

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

Analysis and mapping of crime perception: A quantitative approach of sketch maps

An Assessment of Police Officers’ Perception of Hotspots: What Can Be Done to Improve Officer’s Situational Awareness?

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