The social-psychological process of fearing crime: Developing and testing a new momentary model of victimisation worry

Chataway, Michael L.; Hart, Timothy C.; Bond, Christine

doi:10.1177/0004865819836153

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“…The results from this study corroborate conclusions from previous research that surveying dimensions of crime fear through a smartphone application, such as STUNDA, is technically feasible (Chataway et al, 2017(Chataway et al, , 2019Irvin-Erickson et al, 2020;Solymosi and Bowers, 2018;Solymosi et al, 2015). However, the results from this study further contribute to existing research by providing a more finely grained analysis of feasibility indicators, particularly in terms of correlates of participation.…”

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“…While previous studies have used 4-point scales to measure momentary fear of crime (e.g. not very worried to very worried ; see Chataway et al, 2019; Solymosi et al, 2015), mood levels and other experience outcomes are sometimes measured by slider scales (e.g. Lathia et al, 2013; Smith et al, 2017).…”

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“…Labhart et al, 2019). These issues are also present in experience research on fear of crime, an outcome that has rarely been examined using experience methods, with the exception of a few recent studies (Chataway et al, 2017, 2019; Irvin-Erickson et al, 2020; Solymosi and Bowers, 2018; Solymosi et al, 2015). Although these studies show that it is technically feasible to design a smartphone app to collect momentary data on fear of crime, there are still gaps in knowledge regarding other, and equally important, dimensions of the feasibility of this approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, Irvin-Erickson and colleagues (2020) used a smartphone app to examine fear of crime among a sample of transit users. Furthermore, Chataway and colleagues (2017, 2019) used a smartphone application to survey dimensions of crime fear by means of event-contingent surveys, as participants entered geofenced areas (e.g. shopping areas and beaches), and signal-contingent surveys provided to participants twice every third day.…”

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Feasibility of gathering momentary and daily assessments of fear of crime using a smartphone application (STUNDA): Methodological considerations and findings from a study among Swedish university students

Kronkvist

Engström

2020

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The introduction of experience research using smartphone applications has enabled researchers to explore previously uncharted territories within the social science landscape. The use of experience research methodologies may both avoid some of the biases associated with conventional survey methods and enable researchers to gather information on situational dimensions of different outcomes. While existing smartphone-based experience research is found in several scientific disciplines, one outcome that has rarely been studied using this approach is fear of crime. Although fear of crime here only serves as an example of an outcome that may benefit from being examined in situ, the main focus of this article is directed at assessing the feasibility of gathering momentary and daily assessments on fear of crime using an experience sampling research design. A sample of 191 university students participated in a non-incentivized research study by downloading the smartphone application STUNDA, completing a baseline survey and repeatedly answering signal-contingent surveys, event-contingent surveys, and daily assessments across a self-defined study period. The results indicate that it is feasible to conduct research on fear of crime using a smartphone application. However, variations in participation across groups indicate that the methodology is perhaps best suited to dedicated groups of participants with a special interest in the studied outcome. Methodological considerations and implications for future research are discussed.

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Feasibility of gathering momentary and daily assessments of fear of crime using a smartphone application (STUNDA): Methodological considerations and findings from a study among Swedish university students

Kronkvist

Engström

2020

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“…This was a cross-sectional survey, so we have insight into dynamics over time and we cannot engage in causal inference. Nor did we use experience sampling methods (see Solymosi, Bowers, & Fujiyama, 2015, 2018Chataway & Hart, 2016;Chataway, Hart, & Bond 2019). Ideally, we would have taken into account social and structural characteristics of the neighbourhood (see Brunton-Smith et al, 2014;Côté-Lussier et al, 2015) and use innovative statistical techniques to estimate cluster-level means and variance (Brunton-Smith, Sturgis, & Leckie 2018;Jackson et al, 2019).…”

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Functional and Dysfunctional Fear of Crime in Inner Sydney: Findings from the Quantitative Component of a Mixed-Methods Study

Lee¹,

Jackson²,

Ellis³

2019

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This article presents the quantitative findings from a mixed-method study of perceptions of crime in inner Sydney. A survey was deployed via Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) on a randomly selected sample of the inner Sydney population (n=409). We find that less than half of the participants worry about crime but that a sizable minority (13%) indicated that they have some worry about a category of crime every week of the year or more. Building on a recent conceptual advance Gray et al. 2011), we differentiate between functional and dysfunctional fear of crime. We find that greater direct and indirect experience of victimization, believing one's neighbourhood to be disorderly, and believing that collective efficacy is low all predict moving up the scale from no worry, to functional fear, to increasingly frequent dysfunctional fear. The findings suggest gender and age are largely unrelated to worry about crime, controlling for perceptions of community disorder, perceptions of collective efficacy, direct victimisation experience and indirect victimisation experience. We conclude with some thoughts on the role of environmental cues in shifting people's functional response to perceived risk to dysfunctional patterning of emotions in people's daily lives.

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Fear of Crime, Disorder, and Quality of Life

Chataway

Bourke

2020

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The social-psychological process of fearing crime: Developing and testing a new momentary model of victimisation worry

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Feasibility of gathering momentary and daily assessments of fear of crime using a smartphone application (STUNDA): Methodological considerations and findings from a study among Swedish university students

Feasibility of gathering momentary and daily assessments of fear of crime using a smartphone application (STUNDA): Methodological considerations and findings from a study among Swedish university students

Functional and Dysfunctional Fear of Crime in Inner Sydney: Findings from the Quantitative Component of a Mixed-Methods Study

Fear of Crime, Disorder, and Quality of Life

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