Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of … crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …

Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of … crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …

reporting. A comparison of crime reporting with police crime statistics and the WISIND indicator on the fear of crime also shows …The present report analyzes crime reporting in newspapers and compares this to actual crime rates and fear of crime … crime figures and fear of crime to some extent. …

This report aims to show the distribution of crime in Germany. For this, police crime statistics (polizeiliche … Kriminalstatistik - PKS) are treated so that they integrate dark figures (unreported crime) of crime types along with their specific … treatment methods: First, there is a northsouth divide, with the northern regions experiencing a far higher risk of crime …

This report aims to show the distribution of crime in Germany. For this, police crime statistics (polizeiliche … Kriminalstatistik - PKS) are treated so that they integrate dark figures (unreported crime) of crime types along with their specific … treatment methods: First, there is a north- south divide, with the northern regions experiencing a far higher risk of crime …

Generally, crime cannot be perceived directly, but rather only indirectly through media coverage. In terms of the … perceived threat, local and regional newspapers are of particular importance. Therefore, the focus of the present article is on … how local and regional German newspapers report crime. To answer this question, a standardised content analysis of 31 …

police, but these figures in no way accurately reflect the actual number of cybercrimes. This study, which is based on a …

The most common method of measuring subjective fear of crime in the general population has traditionally been through … although the analysis of data from social media and search engines is not suitable as an indicator of actual crime levels in … researchers learn more about people's subjective perceptions of certain types of crime. The present article will show that …

Measuring and explaining the fear of crime in criminology and its related disciplines has been a controversial issue … for decades. The present report proposes a method of examining and measuring the fear of crime with a broader empirical … andprobability of being the victim of a crime has made it possible to describe, for the very first time, a well-founded fear of …

The most common method of measuring subjective fear of crime in the general population has traditionally been through … although the analysis of data from social media and search engines is not suitable as an indicator of actual crime levels in … researchers learn more about people's subjective perceptions of certain types of crime. The present article will show that …