Background The fear of crime may have negative consequences for health and wellbeing. It
is influenced by factors in the physical and social environment. This study aimed to review …

Research upon the fear of crime has grown substantially in recent years. From its very
inception, this field has relied almost exclusively upon quantitative surveys, which have …

This paper examines vulnerability and risk perception in the fear of crime. Past studies have
often treated gender and age as proxies for vulnerability, and on the few occasions that …

Public confidence in policing has received much attention in recent years, but few studies
outside of the United States have examined the sociological and social–psychological …

Public confidence in policing is receiving increasing attention from UK social scientists and
policy‐makers. The criminal justice system relies on legitimacy and consent to an extent …

In this article, the authors use survey data to explore relationships between gender, fear of
crime and socially desirable responding. The data show that for men, but not women …

Public insecurities about crime are widely assumed to erode individual well-being and
community cohesion. Yet, robust evidence on the link between worry about crime and health …

This article considers the relevance of the notion of ontological security–a sense of order,
stability, routine and predictability to life–to contemporary conceptualisations of wellbeing …

This study assesses the scaling properties of some new measures of the fear of crime. The
new conceptualization—a range of distinct but related constructs that constitute the fear of …

This study, which is based on unit record data from the Queensland Crime Victim Survey of
1991, conducts, using a common set of explanatory variables, a joint analysis of the …