This paper reviews the British research literature on fear of crime. Organised in three sections, the review begins with an analysis of how fear of crime has been variously been defined and measured. The second section outlines (a) levels of fear of crime and (b) trends and trajectories over the...

This Working Paper - the first a series of discussion papers drafted under the auspices of an ESRC research grant (RES 000231108) - outlines our approach to a rather thorny set of conceptual and methodological issues relating to fear of crime research. We come at the topic from a...

Purpose. This study was designed to answer two questions. First, does the risk sensitivity model of worry about crime replicate in three European countries? Second, can the model be extended to include need for cognitive closure? Method. A national probability survey in Italy, Bulgaria and...

Public insecurities about crime are widely assumed to erode individual well-being and community cohesion. Yet, robust evidence on the link between worry about crime and health is surprisingly scarce. This paper draws on data from a prospective cohort study (the Whitehall II study) to show a...