Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk (S U N Y SERIES IN NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRIME AND JUSTICE STUDIES) - Hardcover

Ferraro, Kenneth F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791423697 ISBN 13: 9780791423691

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

An examination of the factors that contribute to the risk of being victimized, such as crime rates and environmental and personal variables

Ferraro examines how people interpret their risk of criminal victimization and identifies who is most likely to be afraid of crime. Although many previous studies of fear of crime do not explicitly consider the concept of risk or perceived risk in estimating the prevalence of fear, the approach taken here considers perceived risk as central to the entire interpretive process. It links national survey data on how people think about crime to official crime rates in America, and uses the comprehensive set of environmental and personal variables on a nationally representative sample to examine how fear develops for ten different types of crime.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kenneth F. Ferraro is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791423697
• ISBN 13: 9780791423691
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 195
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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