NCJ Number
83319
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 10 Issue: 3 Dated: (1982) Pages: 199-209
Date Published
1982
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This study investigates the relationship of demographic, psychosocial, and crime-related factors to fear of crime.
Abstract
Data were collected from 1,499 respondents to a national public opinion survey. A discriminant analysis was used to determine those factors which contribute most to respondents' fear of crime. Overall, 12 variables were found to explain 45.7 percent of the variance in fear of crime. Demographic variable such as sex, the size of the place where the respondent lives, age, marital status, and the number of persons living with the respondent were the most important variables discriminating between fearful and nonfearful respondents. Psychosocial and crime-related variables were found to be less important than demographic variables in discriminating between fearful and nonfearful respondents. (Author abstract)