RT Article
T1 Across the wide prairie: Exploring fear of crime in a small Canadian municipality
JF Journal of criminology
VO 54
IS 2
SP 109
OP 125
A1 Hodgkinson, Tarah
A2 Lunney, Kate
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1762966166
AB Although fear of crime is well-researched in urban domains, the predictors of fear of crime in non-urban contexts are less established. Using a sample of 559 people, this study aims to address this gap by evaluating the role of individual and ecological-level predictors on fear of crime in a small Canadian municipality. Key findings of this study include support for the influence of social cohesion, informal social control and social and physical disorder on fear in a small municipality. However, no clear relationship is found between gender and fear of crime. Additionally, nuanced relationships between social predictors and fear emerge that may be uniquely explained by non-metropolitan context. The findings have implications for the use of urban-based criminological theories of fear and for the use of crime prevention and fear reduction strategies in non-metropolitan contexts.
K1 Fear of crime
K1 Gender
K1 non-metropolitan
K1 Victimisation survey
K1 Canada
DO 10.1177/0004865821999082