Do Fences Reduce Fear of Crime

Abstract

The Roadmap of Government Transformation Program 2010 reported that the sense of fear of crime among Malaysians is quite high which is 89 percent. So, the questions is, do they feel safe without fence? Therefore, this paper seeks on the neighborhood with no fence to identify the sense of safety and fear of crime (FOC) among residents. The result indicates that longer resident living in residential areas is significant with perceptions of crime (POC) in the neighborhood (p = 0.00). The more people go out at night is also significant with POC in the neighborhood (p = 0.012). Keywords: Crime; quality of life; fear of crime; sense of safetyeISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

Factors influencing burglary and home security measures in England and Wales

“…This study addresses the issue of fear of burglary focusing in particular on home security measures. While this topic has been approached in other contexts referring to countries such as Mexico, Malaysia and Canada (Rollwagen, 2016; Sakip et al, 2018; Vilalta, 2012) results and findings are rarely applicable to the UK context.…”

“…While fear of crime is a widely researched topic within the field of criminology, this is one of the very few research studies (Rollwagen, 2016; Sakip et al, 2018; Vilalta, 2012) addressing specifically fear of burglary and associated topics (Cook and Fox, 2011), particularly in the UK context. The findings from this study have a number of implications and can be applied to UK policy development.…”