Seeking to address neighbourhood characteristics that influence individual outcomes is continuously built into public policy in a variety of policy areas. If the design of neighbourhood social interventions is informed by empirical knowledge then they may prove be more cost effective than interventions that target individuals. The adequacy of the evidence to support such interventions is howeve...

OBJECTIVES To assess the association between fear of crime and/or psychological and/or physical abuse in relation to self-reported physical and psychological health, using a large representative sample of elderly women and men in Sweden. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional national survey. METHODS Data were taken from a nationwide representative public health survey (2006). Men and women between t...

Research has identified that juvenile victimization can play a detrimental role for individuals later in life. While this literature has focused on direct and indirect forms of victimization at different stages of life, the influence of juvenile victimization on fear of crime and violent victimization as an adult has been limited. To expand this body of literature, the present research examines...

This paper presents a social agent pedestrian model based on experiments with human subjects. Research studies of criminology and environmental psychology show that certain features of the urban environment generate fear in people, causing them to take alternate routes. The Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) strategy has been implemented to reduce fear of crime and crime itse...

D eterrence is based on the notion that people consciously try to avoid pain and seek pleasure. It follows that by making a choice painful enough—such as the choice of crime—individuals will choose not to engage in the act. Across society as a whole, this perspective would predict that crime rates would be lowest in those places where offending evokes the most “pain” (or costs) and highest in t...

This study examines the impact of two distinct measures residency on college women's perceptions of safety, fear of crime, and precautionary behaviors within both on-campus and offcampus areas. A student's current residency either on or off-campus and a student's prior residency in a metropolitan, micropolitan, or rural county prior to college are compared across these three aspects of campus s...

Crime and the fear of crime are pervasive and endemic concerns in modern post-industrial society and criminal justice systems are clearly failing to tackle both issues. In this research after mentioning the abstract for motivation and the vital opinion in the security public, the role of city framework (programming the environmental design) in the decrease and prediction of crimes in the city...