This paper examines the association between trust and community involvement with fear of crime. Fear of crime is … neighborhood crime prevention program does not affect the fear of crime. Thus the evidence challenges the general idea that … measured by three typical perception measures: neighborhood security; walking alone in the dark; and the risk of becoming a …

In the face of rising crime rates and increasingly complex transnational and local criminal dynamics, Belize's limited …-scale crime prevention initiatives, a comprehensive crime prevention strategy requires more significant institutional reforms …. This Technical Note reviews the current trends in crime and violence in Belize and the government's existing policies and …

tests a correlational model that combines different theoretical determinants of insecurity and the fear of crime. The test …What determines the feeling of insecurity with respect to crime and what can be done about it? This study proposes and … the National Victimization Survey and Perception on Public Security (ENVIPE) of 2011 and the Victimization Survey and …

Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime … events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk that citizen may have inaccurate perceptions of … security. Through a survey experiment carried out in Bogota, Colombia, a city that experienced a substantial reduction in …

tests a correlational model that combines different theoretical determinants of insecurity and the fear of crime. The test …What determines the feeling of insecurity with respect to crime and what can be done about it? This study proposes and … the National Victimization Survey and Perception on Public Security (ENVIPE) of 2011 and the Victimization Survey and …

influence adolescents' decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease … in the severity of judicial punishment imposed on Colombian adolescents, crime rates in Colombian municipalities … effort of the police force to capture teenage suspects. The study also finds that the probability that boys of this same age …

. Among the costs being considered are those of security and crime prevention; justice; incarceration and rehabilitation of … estimates. Although a significant range of costs has been covered, the cost of crime as a whole has not been accounted for due …