Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an
authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to …

Extant research on the fear of crime and criminal victimization had generally found that
women express greater levels of fear than men. Using survey data, this study contrasted …

Reflecting recent efforts to understand fear of crime as a locally situated process (Walklate,
1998; Lupton and Tulloch, 1999; O'Mahony and Quinn, 1999; Sparks, Girling and Loader …

A random sample of the population aged 15 and over was interviewed. There were two
'booster'samples of Maori and Pacific people respectively. Around 5,300 people were …

This study tests the role of crime perceptions in mediating the relationship between
religiosity and punitive attitudes about criminal justice. Specifically, we estimate the effects of …

This article presents a model for police visibility and people's fear of crime. Survey data were
collected from 3,245 adults and 977 teenagers in two typical Finnish neighborhoods. A four …

Using data from the sixth round of the European Social Survey, we implement propensity
score matching methods in order to test whether the presence of past experiences of direct …

This paper tests the pertinence of individual-level theoretical framework of fear of crime to
explain fear of terrorism and underscores the significance of the nexus between fear of …

This article complements existing victimological studies on religion by investigating whether
religion promotes or reduces fear of crime in Germany. According to the generalized …

In victimology, fear of crime is understood as an emotional response to the perceived threat
of crime. Fear of crime has been found to be affected by several variables besides local …