Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk (New Direction Crime Justice) - Softcover

Ferraro, Kenneth F.

 
9780791423707: Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk (New Direction Crime Justice)
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ISBN 10: 0791423700 ISBN 13: 9780791423707
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1995

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791423700
ISBN 13 
9780791423707
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
195

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