Quality of Life and Perceptions of Crime in Saskatoon, Canada

Kitchen, Peter; Williams, Allison

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“…The link itself is fairly well-established: several studies have found that affective measures of fear of crime are associated with poorer mental and physical health, although effect sizes are generally modest (Beatty et al, 2005;Chandola, 2001;Green et al, 2002;Roberts et al, 2010;Ross, 1993;Ross and Mirowsky, 2001;Stafford et al, 2007). There is also some evidence of an association between cognitive measures (perceived crime or risk of crime) and poorer health outcomes (Kitchen and Williams, 2010;White et al, 1987), although the findings here are less consistent, and other studies find no association (Bowling et al, 2006;Johnson et al, 2009).…”

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Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: Mapping review of theories and causal pathways

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This paper presents the findings from a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the links between crime and fear of crime, the social and built environment, and health and wellbeing. A pragmatic approach was employed, with iterative stages of searching and synthesis. This produced a holistic causal framework of pathways to guide future research. The framework emphasises that crime and fear of crime may have substantial impacts on wellbeing, but the pathways are often highly indirect, mediated by environmental factors, difficult to disentangle and not always in the expected direction. The built environment, for example, may affect health via its impacts on health behaviours; via its effects on crime and fear of crime; or via the social environment. The framework also helps to identify unexpected factors which may affect intervention success, such as the risk of adverse effects from crime prevention interventions as a result of raising awareness of crime.

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“…Like a significant amount of inner city neighbourhoods in cities across Canada and North America, neighbourhoods with lowest QOL scores are among the oldest areas of Saskatoon are the core areas where poverty flourishes. There is a disparity between these neighbourhoods and other parties of the city when it comes to things such as health and crime [109,110]. Neighbourhoods with high QOL scores clustered on the east side of the city further highlight this disparity.…”

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An Integrated Model Based on a Hierarchical Indices System for Monitoring and Evaluating Urban Sustainability

2013

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Over 50% of world"s population presently resides in cities, and this number is expected to rise to ~70% by 2050. Increasing urbanization problems including population growth, urban sprawl, land use change, unemployment, and environmental degradation, have markedly impacted urban residents" Quality of Life (QOL). Therefore, urban sustainability and its measurement have gained increasing attention from administrators, urban planners, and scientific communities throughout the world with respect to improving urban development and human well-being. The widely accepted definition of urban sustainability emphasizes the balancing development of three primary domains (urban economy, society, and environment). This article attempts to improve the aforementioned definition of urban sustainability by incorporating a human well-being dimension. Major problems identified in existing urban sustainability indicator (USI) models include a weak integration of potential indicators, poor measurement and quantification, and insufficient spatial-temporal analysis. To tackle these challenges an integrated USI model based on a hierarchical indices system was established for monitoring and evaluating urban sustainability. This model can be performed by quantifying indicators using both traditional statistical approaches and advanced geomatic techniques based on satellite imagery and census data, which aims to provide a theoretical basis for a comprehensive assessment of urban sustainability from a spatial-temporal perspective. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2013, 5 525

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“…,Moore (2006),Cohen (2008),Kitchen and Williams (2010),Braakmann (2012),Ambrey et al (2014),Dustmann and Fasani (2016) andJanke et al (2016).…”

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Victimisation, Well‐being and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime

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2017

The Economic Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. The costs of violent crime victimisation are often left to a judge, tribunal or jury to determine; leading to the potential for considerable subjectivity and variation. Using unique panel data, this paper provides compensation estimates that can help reduce the subjectivity of awards by giving a benchmark for the compensation required to offset direct and intangible costs. First, individual-area fixed-effects models allowing for adaptation to crime are estimated to assess the effects of violent crime victimisation on diverse measures of wellbeing. These results are then subsequently used to calculate the monetary compensation required to offset the wellbeing losses. Estimates allowing for the endogeneity of income suggest that A$88,000 is required to compensate the average crime victim. We find some evidence that compensation estimates are larger if the wellbeing losses of female family members are considered, and are larger for females if the perpetrator of the crime is a stranger rather than a partner, friend or relative. JEL Classification:I31, K30

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Quality of Life and Perceptions of Crime in Saskatoon, Canada

Abstract: Quality of life, Perceptions of crime, neighbourhood, Social cohesion,

Cited by 42 publications

References 20 publications

Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: Mapping review of theories and causal pathways

Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: Mapping review of theories and causal pathways

An Integrated Model Based on a Hierarchical Indices System for Monitoring and Evaluating Urban Sustainability

Victimisation, Well‐being and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime

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