Do Neighborhoods Generate Fear of Crime? An Empirical Test Using the British Crime Survey*

Brunton‐Smith, Ian; Sturgis, Patrick

doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2011.00228.x

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“…25 Indicators of neighborhood stratification (e.g., poverty and ethnic composition) additionally contribute to inferences of safety due to implicit biases linking disadvantage to disorder and a lack of safety. 6,26 Social structural characteristics such as the proportion of lone-parent households, income level, perceived neighborhood collective efficacy (i.e., the ability of residents to work together to solve problems) and perceived trust, can also shape perceived safety in part by contributing to a lack of actual and perceived social capital or collective community involvement, and cohesiveness. 23,27,28 Still, it remains unclear if these dimensions of structural characteristics or neighborhood quality are important for children or how such information is processed when forming their impressions.…”

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A Child’s View: Social and Physical Environmental Features Differentially Predict Parent and Child Perceived Neighborhood Safety

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Parent and child perceived neighborhood safety predicts child health outcomes such as sleep quality, asthma, physical activity, and psychological distress. Although previous studies identify environmental predictors of parent perceived safety, little is known about predictors of child perceived safety. This study aims to identify the social and physical environmental neighborhood features that predict child and parent perceived neighborhood safety and, simultaneously, to assess the association between child and parent perceptions. Data were from the QUebec Adipose and Lifestyle InvesTigation in Youth (QUALITY) cohort, an ongoing study of Caucasian children (aged 8-10 years) with a parental history of obesity, and their biological parents from Québec, Canada. Measures of social and physical neighborhood features were collected using a spatial data infrastructure and in-person audits. Structural equation modeling was used to test direct and indirect associations between neighborhood features, child and parent perceived safety. Results suggest that among children (N=494), trees and lighting were positively associated with perceived neighborhood safety, whereas a high proportion of visible minorities was associated with poorer perceived safety. Parents' perceptions of safety were more strongly tied to indicators of disorder and a lack of community involvement, and to traffic. Child perceived safety was partly explained by parent perceived safety, suggesting moderate concordance between perceptions. Although associated with each other, parent and child perceived safety seemed to be determined by distinct environmental features. Though this study focused on determinants of child and parent perceived safety, future research investigating the impact of neighborhood safety on child health should consider both child and parent perspectives.

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“…Premièrement, les répondants aux deux sondages étaient différents sous plusieurs aspects, tant sur le plan de leurs caractéristiques sociodémographiques que de leur profil de réponse. Il a été démontré que plusieurs facteurs individuels, situationnels et contextuels pouvaient influencer les perceptions quant à la sécurité et la police (Brown et Benedict, 2002 ;Brunton-Smith et Sturgis, 2011 ;Weitzer et Tuch, 2005 ;Zhao, Lawton et Longmire, 2010). Deuxièmement, un des sondages a été réalisé au moyen d'un panel Web, tandis que l'autre a été mené auprès d'un échantillon de répondants au téléphone.…”

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Sondages Web, opinion publique et performance policière1

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Lam

2016

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“…Innerhalb desselben Wohngebiets sahen Befragte, die sich unsicherer fühl-ten, auch mehr Unordnung (Perkins et al 1992;Perkins und Taylor 1996;Robinson et al 2003;Taylor et al 1985;Lewis und Maxfield 1980;Link et al 2014). Das ist ein Hinweis auf eine mögliche Messfehlerkorrelation und stellt die kausalen Zusammenhänge zwischen Unordnung und Unsicherheit in Frage (Brunton- Smith und Sturgis 2011;Skogan 2015).…”

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Disorder and Perceptions of Insecurity in Urban Neighbourhoods – The Overrated Role of “Broken Windows” and the Challenge of Ethnic Diversity

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Janssen

Gerstner

2017

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Disorder and Perceptions of Insecurity in Urban Neighbourhoods -The Overrated Role of "Broken Windows" and the Challenge of Ethnic DiversityAbstract According to the "broken windows"-approach, signs of physical and social disorder in public spaces are a major cause of insecurity perceptions and the subsequent decline of urban neighbourhoods. Yet, the empirical support is weak as many studies have relied on subjective perceptions of disorder which are closely correlated with fear of crime. Using independent and systematic social observations we investigate the individual and ecological factors influencing the 'perception bias' of disorder, and ask how strong the impact of disorder on fear actually is. Our analyses are based on a survey of ca 6500 respondents and systematic social observations in 140 neighbourhoods in Cologne and Essen. We show that both the perception of disorder and fear of crime are mainly driven by the percentage of visible minorities. For the first time, we show that this effect is strongly dependent on individual attitudes towards migration. Only in one city, Essen, does the amount of systematically observed disorder have a fear-inducing effect over and above the effect of ethnic diversity. These results highlight the challenges of increased migration for social cohesion, and at the same time pinpoint at the importance of social contexts for the impact of social problems on feelings of insecurity.

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Do Neighborhoods Generate Fear of Crime? An Empirical Test Using the British Crime Survey*

Cited by 241 publications

References 61 publications

A Child’s View: Social and Physical Environmental Features Differentially Predict Parent and Child Perceived Neighborhood Safety

A Child’s View: Social and Physical Environmental Features Differentially Predict Parent and Child Perceived Neighborhood Safety

Sondages Web, opinion publique et performance policière1

Disorder and Perceptions of Insecurity in Urban Neighbourhoods – The Overrated Role of “Broken Windows” and the Challenge of Ethnic Diversity

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