RT Article
T1 Perceptions of neighbourhood safety and policy response: a qualitative approach
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 23
IS 3
SP 425
OP 440
A1 Lub, Vasco 1978-
A2 Leeuw, Tom de
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1565884272
AB Safety perceptions of residents are often analysed through surveys and compared with factual crime developments. Using the Dutch city of Rotterdam as an urban context of improved crime levels, this article provides a critique on standardised surveys in the research of safety perceptions and its presupposed connection to factual crime. Contrasting survey results from the Rotterdam Safety Index with qualitative data from 64 in-depth interviews in four districts, the qualitative narrative contradicts findings from the survey and implies more nuanced and diversified policy responses to safety issues. Because of the tendency of surveys to connect safety perceptions to factual crime, their unsuitability to catch subtle perceptions and their inability to expose new viewpoints, we argue for de-quantification: a lesser dependency on—but not a repeal of—survey data in this area, supplemented by a periodic qualitative approach in the research of crime and safety information (qualitative monitoring).
K1 Safety perceptions
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Survey
K1 Qualitative research
K1 Crime policy
K1 Sicherheit
K1 Befragung
K1 Kriminalpolitik
K1 Wahrnehmung
DO 10.1007/s10610-016-9331-0