RT Article
T1 The impact of crime rate, experience of crime, and fear of crime on residents’ participation in association: studying 25 districts in the City of Seoul, South Korea
JF Crime prevention and community safety
VO 20
IS 3
SP 189
OP 207
A1 Lee, Juheon
A2 Cho, Sarah
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1700203975
AB While the majority of studies on community crime have focused on socio-economic characteristics that lead to high or low rates of crime, the impact of crime on community residents’ social ties has received less attention. This study examines the impact of district-level crime rate, experience of crime, and fear of crime on individual community residents’ participation in association—which has been widely seen as an indicator of social capital—in the city of Seoul, South Korea. Moreover, as recent social capital studies look deeper into the different types of neighborhood crime connected to different types of associations, this study separately examines the impact of total crime, violent crime, and property crime on the respondents’ social, civic engagement, reward-based, and online associations. We find that district-level crime rates negatively correlated with all types of associations, but the difference between violent crime and property crime was minimal. Additionally, individual-level experience of crime significantly decreased residents’ participation in social and online associations. However, fear of crime did not show a significant effect on any type of association.
K1 Crime rates
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Voluntary association
K1 Social capital
K1 Civic participation
DO 10.1057/s41300-018-0047-6