Fear of crime : interpreting victimization risk /
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| Author / Creator: | Ferraro, Kenneth F. |
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| Imprint: | Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c1995. |
| Description: | xvi, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in new directions in crime and justice studies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1735592 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-171) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0791423700 0791423697 |