Abstract
In the decade-and-a-half since victimization surveys were conducted in the US for the Crime Commission there has been a great deal of descriptive research on “fear of crime.” Under this headline pollsters have revealed that people rare their chances of being victimized as moderate (below, for example, being involved in an auto accident), but substantial numbers of Americans fear to walk somewhere not far from where they live, and virtually everyone thinks crime is increasing.
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Skogan, W.G. (1986). The Fear of Crime and its Behavioral Implications. In: Fattah, E.A. (eds) From Crime Policy to Victim Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08305-3_9
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