NCJ Number
137111
Journal
Journal of Crime and Justice Volume: 14 Issue: 2 Dated: (1991) Pages: 97- 121
Date Published
1991
Length
25 pages
Annotation
Data derived from a sample of 586 respondents to a telephone survey conducted in the Omaha Metropolitan Statistical Area were used to examine fear of crime and its relation to various measures of community satisfaction and self-protection measures. The analyses included a bivariate treatment of key hypothesized consequences of fear of crime and a multivariate analysis of the combination of community satisfaction and self-protection measures with various levels of fear of crime.
Abstract
The findings showed a high level of fear of crime, disproportionate to the city's crime rate. Past empirical findings showing relationships between age and sex; fear of crime were supported in part. Females were more afraid of crime than males, but age appeared not to play a significant role in fear. The second major finding is that the level of fear of crime does affect the citizen's dependence structure, manifested by scores on the five Self vs. External Dependence Construct variables: satisfaction with quality of life, satisfaction with quality of services, satisfaction with quality of institutions, house protection measures, and personal protection measures. 6 tables, 7 notes, and 31 references