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Fear of victimization: Why are women and the elderly more afraid?
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This article is published in Social Science Quarterly.The article was published on 1984-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 625 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control & Injury prevention.read more
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Fear of crime: A review of the literature.
TL;DR: 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.
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The Measurement of Fear of Crime
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual definition of fear of crime and then systematically review the way it has been measured in research over the last fifteen years, concluding that although the relationship between fear and risk of crime is only moderately correlated, a substantial number of studies have used risk measures and generalized to fear.
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Perceived Risk and Fear of Crime: Role of Social and Physical Incivilities:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the influence of a number of social and physical incivilities on two different reactions to crime and feelings of fear, using a national data set of 1,101 randomly selected U.S. adults who have been interviewed by telephone.
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Women's Fear of Victimization: Shadow of Sexual Assault?
TL;DR: In this paper, the shadow hypothesis was used to examine the effect of sexual assault on women's fear of other victimizations, and found that women are more afraid of all victimizations than men.