Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk

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.

Author: Kenneth F. Ferraro
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 04/01/1995
Pages: 195
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.87w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780791423707

About the Author
Kenneth F. Ferraro is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University.

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