Carmina Jasso López

Bio: Carmina Jasso López is an academic researcher from Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. The author has contributed to research in topics: Perception & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 18 citations.

Victimization, perception of insecurity, and changes in daily routines in Mexico

Abstract: OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationships between victimization, perception of insecurity, and changes in routines. METHODS The 8,170 subjects of both sexes (49.9% women and 50.1% men) aged between 12 and 60 years, selected from a proportional stratified sampling, participated in this study. The measuring instrument was an adaptation of the National Survey on Victimization and Perception of Public Security. Chi-square tests were performed. RESULTS The results show significant differences on victimization and sex regarding perception of insecurity, restrictions on everyday activities, and protection measures. 13.1% of those interviewed claimed to have been victims of a crime in the past 12 months. 52.7% of women considered their municipality as unsafe or very unsafe. In the case of men, this percentage was 58.2%. Female victims reported significant restrictions in everyday activities when compared to non-victims. In relation to men, the percentage of victims with a high restriction of activities was higher in male victims than non-victims. In the group of victimized women, the segment of women who opted for increased measures of protection against crime was larger than expected, while those of non-victims who took less protective measures was lower than expected. These same results were observed in the group of men. CONCLUSIONS The experience of victimization implies a greater perception of insecurity. However, the climate of insecurity is widespread in a large number of citizens. Gender differences in a high-crime environment show the importance of investigating in depth the roles of both genders in the perception of insecurity and changes in routines.

Fear of crime examined through diversity of crime, social inequalities, and social capital: An empirical evaluation in Peru:

Abstract: Latin America is a violent region where fear of crime is well spread but still not fully understood. Using multilevel methods for a large and subnational representative household survey (N = 271,02...

Percepción de inseguridad en polígonos geográficos prioritarios en Acapulco

Abstract: This paper study factors related with the perception of insecurity in residents of priority geographical polygons in Acapulco, by descriptive and correlational statistical analysis. Data was collected through a survey, following a representative sampling within each polygon, for testing mean differences. The results revealed that the perception of insecurity is associated with schooling, confidence in the police, criminal incidence, the existence of street gangs, and the polygon of residence. Also was found a weak correlation, but statistically significant, between the perception of insecurity and the proportion of modified activities due to fear of crime, which in turn is associated with sex, age group, criminal incidence, and its polygon.

Percepción de inseguridad en los barrios y eficacia colectiva: un estudio de caso

Abstract: espanolLa comunidad ha desempenado un papel fundamental en la prevencion de conductas antisociales y delincuenciales. La literatura criminologica viene estudiando desde principios del siglo XX la relacion entre las caracteristicas de los barrios y la tasa de delitos y conductas antisociales que se producen en ellos. Desde la conocida teoria de la desorganizacion social, hasta otras mas contemporaneas como la de la eficacia colectiva, han estudiado los efectos que despliegan las caracteristicas del vecindario en conductas antisociales o delincuenciales. El objetivo principal de este trabajo ha consistido en llevar a cabo un proyecto piloto sobre la cohesion social y la percepcion de inseguridad en uno de los barrios mas populares de la ciudad extremena de Caceres, conocido como la barriada de Aldea Moret. La cohesion social es uno de los principales conceptos que utiliza una de las teorias ecologicas mas importante en estos ultimos anos en criminologia, como es la teoria de la eficacia colectiva, para explicar la relacion entre la comunidad y la criminalidad. Este estudio no solo nos permite llegar a conocer cuestiones relativas a la cohesion social y la percepcion de inseguridad en un barrio, sino tambien estudiar teorias criminologicas poco trabajadas en nuestro pais. EnglishThe community has played a critical role in preventing antisocial and criminal behavior. The criminological literature has been studying since the beginning of the 20th century the relationship between the characteristics of the neighborhoods and the crime and antisocial rate that occurs in them. From the well-known criminological theory of social disorganization, to other more contemporary ones such as that of collective efficacy, they have studied the effects that neighborhood characteristics display on antisocial or delinquent behaviors. The main objective of this work has been to carry out a pilot project on social cohesion and the perception of insecurity in one of the most popular neighborhoods in the Extremaduran city of Caceres, known as the Aldea Moret neighborhood. Social cohesion is one of the main concepts used by one of the most important ecological theories in criminology in recent years, such as the theory of collective efficacy, to explain the relationship between the community and crime. This study not only allows us to get to know issues related to social cohesion and the perception of insecurity in a neighborhood, but also to study criminological theories little worked in our country.