Integrating Individuals and Environments: A Situational Approach to Studying Action

Hardie, Beth

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-46194-2_2

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“…Improved measures of individual characteristics that constitute fear propensity are also warranted, which may be achieved by including variables based on validated scales that tap into personality traits (for example, Guedes et al, 2018). This may also provide opportunities to study the interaction between individual characteristics and features of settings as proposed in relation to crime causation (see Hardie, 2020; Wikström et al, 2018), which could develop into a full causal test and an elaborated model of situational fear of crime and not just the environmental aspect examined in this study (that is, features of settings). In such future research, features of settings may also be further explored and combined into multidimensional settings that typically elicit fear.…”

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“…Thus, as argued by Reis et al (2014: 378), global measures do not really capture experiences but rather consist of ‘reconstructed interpretations of personal experience’, an issue related to the fact that individuals are generally asked to assess fear of crime at the time of completing a survey as opposed to when fear of crime may be experienced (Gray et al, 2008). This issue also makes it difficult to know whether suggested predictors of fear actually have an explanatory role in relation to settings that elicit fear, because independent and dependent variables are not measured as they converge in space and time (for a general discussion of this issue, see Hardie, 2020).…”

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“… 1. The term ‘situation’ can have different meanings, which is why the term ‘setting’ is used here because it refers to the immediate environment in which experiences occur (for a discussion, see Hardie, 2020; see also Reis and Holmes, 2014). …”

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Examining experiential fear of crime using STUNDA: Findings from a smartphone-based experience methods study

Engström

Kronkvist

2021

European Journal of Criminology

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Situational data have become more frequently used in research on offending and victimization. However, one outcome that has received less attention is fear of crime. The current study uses situational data collected through a smartphone application (STUNDA) to examine fear of crime as it is experienced in daily life among a sample of university students. Roughly 1200 situations reported by 129 students were analysed using generalized estimating equations. The results indicate that experiential fear of crime, in the form of worrying about victimization, is related to features of the immediate settings. More specifically, the odds ratio for experiencing fear of crime is significantly higher in places away from home and after dark, whereas social activities are associated with a significantly lower odds ratio, net of individual-level controls (gender, age, previous victimization and fear propensity). Yet, fear propensity, measured here using items that refer to an individual’s general worry about victimization, has an independent significant effect on fear of crime. As a result of the study’s convenience sample, the generalizability of the findings is limited, but a more general theoretical conclusion can nonetheless be drawn; features of settings and individual characteristics are both of importance. Further, the use of experience methods via a smartphone application provided detailed and unique situational data, which suggests that future research should further employ these methods to study situational phenomena such as fear of crime.

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