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Fear of crime: A review of the literature.
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The literature on fear of crime has grown rapidly in the last three decades as discussed by the authors, and the reasons for this growth and attempts to put some structure on the work to date are discussed and alternative approaches suggested.Abstract:
The literature on fear of crime has grown rapidly in the last three decades. This paper examines the reasons for this growth and attempts to put some structure on the work to date. The inadequacies of measures of fear of crime are discussed and alternative approaches suggested. Alternative explanatory theories are compared and strategies for reducing fear reviewed.read more
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City planning and population health: a global challenge
Billie Giles-Corti,Anne Vernez-Moudon,Rodrigo Siqueira Reis,Rodrigo Siqueira Reis,Rodrigo Siqueira Reis,Gavin Turrell,Gavin Turrell,Andrew L. Dannenberg,Hannah Badland,Sarah Foster,Melanie Lowe,James F. Sallis,Mark Stevenson,Neville Owen,Neville Owen +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify eight integrated regional and local interventions that, when combined, encourage walking, cycling, and public transport use, while reducing private motor vehicle use, and recommend establishing a set of indicators to benchmark and monitor progress towards achievement of more compact cities that promote health and reduce health inequities.
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The built environment, neighborhood crime and constrained physical activity: An exploration of inconsistent findings
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Built environmental correlates of older adults' total physical activity and walking: a systematic review and meta-analysis
David Barnett,Anthony Barnett,Andrea Nathan,Jelle Van Cauwenberg,Jelle Van Cauwenberg,Ester Cerin,Ester Cerin,Ester Cerin +7 more
TL;DR: Safe, walkable, and aesthetically pleasing neighbourhoods, with access to overall and specific destinations and services positively influenced older adults’ PA participation, but the strength of evidence of associations of specific categories of environment attributes with PA differed across PA and environmental measurement types.
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Place, social relations and the fear of crime: a review
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the literature on fear of crime of interest to the geographical and environmental disciplines, focusing on accounts which link fear with the physical environment, and then on fear, social identity and exclusion.
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The Culture of High Crime Societies
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of cultural adaptation is developed to explain the emergence of new strategies of crime control in the UK and USA, arguing that the political and policy shifts of recent years have been conditioned by prior changes that have occurred at the level of social structures and cultural sensibilities.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
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TL;DR: In this paper, a "routine activity approach" is presented for analyzing crime rate trends and cycles. But rather than emphasizing the characteristics of offenders, with this approach, the authors concentrate upon the circumstances in which they carry out predatory criminal acts, and hypothesize that the dispersion of activities away from households and families increases the opportunity for crime and thus generates higher crime rates.
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Techniques of neutralization: A theory of delinquency.
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TL;DR: A major technique of neutralization centers on the injury or harm involved in the delinquent act as mentioned in this paper, in so far as the delinquent can define himself as lacking responsibility for his deviant actions, the disapproval of self or others is sharply reduced in effectiveness as a restraining influence.
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Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory
TL;DR: In this article, a community-level theory that builds on Shaw and McKay's original model is formulated and tested, and the model is first tested by analyzing data for 238 localities in Great Britain constructed from a 1982 national survey of 10,905 residents.