RT Article
T1 Poor crime prevention policy implementation: links to ‘fear of crime’
JF Acta criminologica
VO 30
IS 2
SP 47
OP 64
A1 Mothibi, Kholofelo A.
A1 Roelofse, C.
A2 Roelofse, C.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1744219060
AB The National Crime Prevention Strategy (NCPS) (1996) and the White Paper on Safety and Security (1998) were explicit in mandating municipalities across the country to take the lead in the prevention of crime in their jurisdictions. This article discusses the results obtained from research that assessed fear of crime in Polokwane, South Africa. Most municipalities failed to implement the tenets of the NCPS policies including Polokwane Municipality as reflected in the findings conducted in South African cities such as Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town. The research focused on feelings of safety and fear of crime in selected areas of Polokwane. It is based on 480 pre-coded closed-ended questions questionnaires that were distributed among community members in the city centre of Polokwane. The researchers selected nine hotspots in the city and collected data on fear of crime, crimes feared the most and factors contributing to fear of crim, according to respondents. The findings revealed that 84.2 percent of respondents feel very unsafe at the c/o Jorrisen and Dahl street during the night, while 76.3 percent of the respondents indicated that that they mostly feared being robbed. Furthermore, the research revealed poor policing as a factor contributing to fear of crime (87.9 percent).
K1 Crime
K1 Crime prevention
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Polokwane
K1 Public safety
K1 Victimisation
K1 South Africa
K1 National Crime Prevention Strategy
K1 NCPS
K1 Policing
K1 Poor policing