RT Article
T1 Political socialization, worry about crime and antisocial behaviour: an analysis of age, period and cohort effects
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 59
IS 2
SP 435
OP 460
A1 Gray, Emily 1974-
A2 Grasso, Maria 1984-
A2 Farrall, Stephen 1969-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1590303938
AB Fear of crime occupies a substantial area of research and theorizing in criminology. Yet, it has not been examined within a longitudinal framework of political socialization. Using insights from generational modelling, we explore how political cohorts influence the fear of crime and perceptions of antisocial behaviour. This ‘age, period and cohort’ (APC) approach recognizes the distinct temporal processes of (1) individual ageing, (2) current contexts and (3) generational membership and is crucial to understanding the origins and shape of social change. We employ repeated cross-sectional data from the British Crime Survey in an APC analysis to explore how worry about crime and perceptions of antisocial behaviour were impacted by the sociopolitical environment in which respondents spent their ‘formative years’. Our results underline the theoretical significance of political socialization and the methodological consequence of longitudinal analyses when exploring public perceptions of crime. We find that political socialization can have a distinctive and enduring impression on public perceptions of crime from childhood into middle age.
K1 Age-period-cohort
K1 Political generation
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Antisocial behaviour
K1 Kriminalitätsfurcht
K1 Kohorten
DO 10.1093/bjc/azy024