Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk

By Kenneth F. Ferraro

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791423700
• ISBN13: 9780791423707
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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