Functional and dysfunctional fear of crime in inner Sydney: Findings from the quantitative component of a mixed-methods study

This article presents the quantitative findings from a mixed-method study of perceptions of crime in inner Sydney. A survey was deployed via Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview on a randomly selected sample of the inner Sydney population (n = 409). We find that less than half of the participants w...

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Main Author: Lee, Murray 1965- (Author)
Contributors: Ellis, Justin R. ; Jackson, Jonathan 1974-
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 311-332
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