WOMEN AND THE 'FEAR OF CRIME': Challenging the Accepted Stereotype

Gilchrist, Elizabeth; Bannister, Jon; Ditton, Jason; Farrall, Stephen

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“…5 Some suggestions relating to recommendations for future crime and fear of crime surveying have been made, 6 and some contributions to substantive issues published or forthcoming. 7 This article extends the argument advanced elsewhere: 8 the idea that 'anger' about crime is rather more common than is 'fear' (although this does not mean that those who are angry In a sense, this article merely states the obvious. It would be faintly daft to 'worry' about or 'fear' something which has already happened (although not that it might happen again).…”

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Reactions to Victimisation: Why has Anger been Ignored?

Ditton

Farrall

Bannister³

et al. 1999

Crime Prev Community Saf

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Mrs Basham beats the burglar Two elderly women described yesterday how they floored a teenage burglar and held him 'like a wriggly worm' by tying his legs with a handbag strap and sitting on top of him. Edith Basham, 69, and her aunt, Doris Ray, a frail 84-year-old, saw the intruder removing glass to break into a house and intervened. With John Roberts, a 64-year-old neighbour, they grappled with the 17-year-old burglar and held him despite sustaining cuts and bruises as he punched and kicked them. Mrs Basham, a grandmother, said: 'We are pensioners but not pushovers. None of us felt fear, just anger'. 2 IntroductionWe have been investigating the phenomenon of the 'fear' of crime with increasing scepticism since 1994. Initially tasked to check what had become a rather woolly concept, this Economic and Social Research Council-funded project 3 has been able to make some useful inroads into question-design choices, 4 and some further re-analysis of common explanatory models is under way. 5 Some suggestions relating to recommendations for future crime and fear of crime surveying have been made, 6 and some contributions to substantive issues published or forthcoming. 7 This article extends the argument advanced elsewhere: 8 the idea that 'anger' about crime is rather more common than is 'fear' (although this does not mean that those who are angry Page 38Jason Ditton, Stephen Farrall, Jon Bannister, Elizabeth Gilchrist and Ken Pease Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal might not also be fearful). That article considered the general feelings that members of a random sample (of 1,629 domestically-resident Scottish adults, living in the region then called Strathclyde) thought they would experience when considering the prospect of victimisation. Of the total, 396 individuals had experienced a total of 638 prior-year victimisations, and for the purposes of that article, they were treated as 'victims'. That article concluded that, however the sample was divided (whether by age, gender or victim status), anger, rather than fear, was the dominant prospective response.This article uses different victimisation data, but from the same survey. In addition to assessing the extent of prior-year victimisation, the 396 respondents were probed in rather more detail about the most recent prior-year victimisation they had experienced. 9 This total of 396 was fashioned from 112 housebreaking cases, 175 vehicle crime ones, 68 assaults, and 41 cases of vandalism. The 396 respondents provided data on how long ago the victimisation occurred, where it happened, how they felt initially, how they felt later, what the worst thing about the victimisation was, and whether or not they felt they had been specifically targeted.In a sense, this article merely states the obvious. It would be faintly daft to 'worry' about or 'fear' something which has already happened (although not that it might happen again). Yet so obsessed have analysts been with the 'fear' of crime that other responses to victimisation have effectively bee...

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Reactions to Victimisation: Why has Anger been Ignored?

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Bannister³

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“…For instance, women and older people tend to feel more insecure (Carro et al, 2010;Borooah and Carcach, 1997), ethnic minorities tend to be more fearful (Brunton-Smith and Sturgis, 2011) as well as poor people (Pantazis, 2000), and that having some familiarity with the area reduces concerns about suffering a crime (Gilchrist et al, 1998). One of the most frequently considered causes of the fear of crime is media.…”

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“…With ν > µ it is implicitly assuming that a more fearful person has a more dominant opinion (Latané, 1981) so that the person with the highest fear of crime also has a bigger impact on the other individual and so, a contagion process for the fear of crime is being modelled (Gilchrist et al, 1998).…”

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Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Curiel

bishop

2018

Palgrave Commun

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There is often a mismatch between levels of crime and the fear of becoming a victim of crime. It is not uncommon to find individuals who suffer little or no crime but yet who are still fearful of some future crime. Alternatively, a place or region might see an increase in crime over time while the fear of crime remains unchanged. Building on a model that previously considered the fear of crime as an opinion shared by simulated individuals, here the impact that different distributions of crime have on the fear experienced by the population is analysed. Simulating the dynamics of the fear of individuals, along with changes of the distribution of crime, leads to results which show that fear is sensitive to the distribution of crime and that there is a phase transition for high levels of concentration of crime. A policy may be oriented to reduce crime, so that the population effectively suffers less crime, but if the victimisation is displaced to other individuals, then the perception of insecurity may not decrease, with fear becoming more widespread.

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“…También, en este estudio, se subrayó que el sexo de las víctimas constituía una variable relevante en el estudio, en el sentido de que las mujeres percibían un mayor temor a la victimización que los hombres. Estos resultados no son del todo coincidentes con los obtenidos por Gilchrist, Bannister, Ditton & Farrall (1998), quienes señalaron que hombres y mujeres presentaban niveles similares de miedo a la victimización y utilizaban medidas de protección para evitar una posible victimización de manera similar. Consideramos que estos aspectos merecen de una mayor exploración porque, tal y como sugieren Sutton y Farral (2005), es muy probable que los hombres tengan mayor temor a la victimización que las mujeres, aunque lo expresen menos.…”

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Miedo al Delito, Victimización y Satisfacción con la Vida en México

Martínez–Ferrer¹

2017

Summa Psicológica

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ResumenEl objetivo del presente estudio es examinar las relaciones existentes entre miedo al delito, victimización y satisfacción con la vida, en función del género. La muestra estuvo conformada por 7535 sujetos de ambos sexos (49.8 % mujeres y 50.2 % hombres) de entre 12 y 70 años, seleccionados a partir de un muestro estratificado proporcional. El instrumento de medida fue una adaptación de la Encuesta Nacional de Victimización y Seguridad Pública de México. A partir de un MANOVA factorial multivariante se observó que el miedo al delito, la victimización y las medidas de protección frente a la delincuencia se relacionaban con una pobre satisfacción con la vida. También se observó, respecto del sexo, que los hombres tenían mayor miedo al delito y realizaban más restricciones en su vida cotidiana. Finalmente, se discuten los resultados y sus implicaciones prácticas.Palabras clave: Satisfacción con la vida, victimización, miedo al delito, rutinas diarias, percepción de inseguridad, AbstractThe aim of this study is to examine how fear of crime, victimization, and satisfaction with life are related and also differ according to gender. 7535 participants of both sexes (49.8% women and 50.2% men) aged from 12 to 70 years old were selected from a proportional stratified sample. The instrument applied was an adaptation of the National Survey of Victimization and Public Security of Mexico. A multivariate factorial MANOVA was carried out. Fear of crime, victimization, and measures of protection against delinquency appear as related to poor satisfaction with life. Regarding to gender, higher scores of men on fear of crime and on restrictions in their daily lives were observed. Finally, the results and their practical implications are discussed.

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WOMEN AND THE 'FEAR OF CRIME': Challenging the Accepted Stereotype

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Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

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