The fear of crime refers to the fear of being a victim of crime as opposed to the actual probability of being a victim of crime.The fear of crime, along with fear of the streets and the fear of youth, is said to have been in Western culture for “time immemorial”. While fear of crime can be differentiated into public feelings, thoughts and behaviors about the personal risk of criminal victimization, distinctions can also be made between the tendency to see situations as fearful, the actual experience while in those situations, and broader expressions about the cultural and social significance of crime and symbols of crime in people’s neighborhoods and in their daily, symbolic lives.
Universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence
Facial Structure Is a Reliable Cue of Aggressive Behavior
Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment Validation Study
Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis For Professionals Investigating the Sexual Exploitation of Ch
Safety Rituals: How Women Cope with the Fear of Sexual Violence
Stranger Danger: Explaining Women’s Fear of Crime
Images of Criminals and Victims: A Study on Women's Fear and Social Control.
London Safety Survey
STRANGER DANGER
FEAR OF CRIME AND PERSONAL VULNERABILITY:EXAMINING SELF-REPORTED HEALTH
A psychological perspective on vulnerability in the fear of crime
THE ERGONOMICS OF DISHONESTY
The Gender of Crime
Unsafe and Harassed in Public Spaces:
Missing White Woman Syndrome
America's Fear of Crime | Prison Industry | Dr Adolphus Belk Jr
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Universal dimensions of social cognition: warmth and competence
Dark alleys and battle zones approximate the survival settings of ancestral encounters with strangers. Evolutionary pressures are reflected in social perception: on encountering others, people must determine, first, the intentions of the other person or group and, second, their ability to act on those intentions -
Facial Structure Is a Reliable Cue of Aggressive Behavior
Facial width-to-height ratio is a sexually dimorphic metric that is independent of body size and may have been shaped by sexual selection. We recently showed that this metric is correlated with behavioral aggression in men -
Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment Validation Study
Women in the United States are murdered by an intimate partner (married and non-married) or former partner more often than by an acquaintance or stranger. In fact, at least 30% of American women who are killed are murdered by an intimate partner or ex-partner according to the Supplemental Homicide Records -
Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis For Professionals Investigating the Sexual Exploitation of Ch
The sexual victimization of children involves varied and diverse dynamics. It can range from one-on-one intrafamilial abuse to multioffender/multivictim extrafamilial sex rings and from nonfamily abduction of toddlers to prostitution of teenagers. Sexual victimization of children can run the gamut of “normal” sexual acts from fondling to intercourse. -
Safety Rituals: How Women Cope with the Fear of Sexual Violence
In this study we focus on how women’s fear of sexual violence shapes their views on sexual assault and influences their use of safety strategies as well as how those safety strategies may restrict their use of time and space. -
Stranger Danger: Explaining Women’s Fear of Crime
Using logistic regression techniques with the Canadian Violence Against Women Survey, this paper examines the effects of demographic characteristics, previous experience with victimization, and risk management and avoidance behaviors on fear of crime. -
Images of Criminals and Victims: A Study on Women's Fear and Social Control.
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London Safety Survey
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STRANGER DANGER
‘Stranger danger’ could be described as a buzzword developed over the past decade in education and the media. Though the exact origins of the term are unclear, it generally refers to the possible threat of strangers to children, and has been incorporated into many of the ‘stay safe’ programmes taught by schools and urban youth clubs. -
FEAR OF CRIME AND PERSONAL VULNERABILITY:EXAMINING SELF-REPORTED HEALTH
This research considers the relationship between self-reported health and fear of crime. Fear of crime literature suggests women, the elderly, or theimpoverished may experience heightened fear of crime. It is hypothesizedthat it is a sense of vulnerability that leads individuals to believe theywould be unable to protect themselves should an attack occur, increasingtheir personal fear of crime. -
A psychological perspective on vulnerability in the fear of crime
This paper examines vulnerability and risk perception in the fear of crime. Past studies have often treated gender and age as proxies for vulnerability, and on the few occasions that vulnerability has been operationalised, there has been little agreement on the mechanisms that underpin perceived susceptibility. -
THE ERGONOMICS OF DISHONESTY
Research in environmental sciences has found that the ergonomic design of human-made environments influences thought, feeling and action. Here, we examine the impact of physical environments on dishonest behavior. -
The Gender of Crime
The Gender Lens series has been conceptualized as a way of encouraging the development -
Unsafe and Harassed in Public Spaces:
Stop Street Harassment (SSH) commissioned this study. SSH is a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting and ending gender-based street harassment worldwide through public education and community mobilization. -
Missing White Woman Syndrome
Media coverage tends to be higher when victims are young, White, conventionally-attractive women. Research indicates that crimes with white female victims do indeed receive disproportionate coverage. The TV and print media stories we see can influence our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us. And insofar as white female victims are deemed most newsworthy, media coverage can skew our perceptions of how risky our lives are and which groups are most in need of increased protection from criminal behavior. -
America's Fear of Crime | Prison Industry | Dr Adolphus Belk Jr
Rock Hill, South Carolina - Dr. Adolphus Belk, Jr. is a political analyst and professor of political science and African American studies. He currently teaches at Winthrop University with a focus on issues of race and politics. He also specializes in the prison-industrial complex