The purpose of this study was to evaluate anew fear of crime scale that accurately reflects the current criminal … experiences of older people and test gender differences in fear of crime in a number of items, in the item wording, and in choice … response categories. A series of chi-square tests compared the fear of crime scale of older people according to their gender …

This paper investigates the relationship between local crime rates and the retirement decisions of older Americans. We … do so by linking data from the Health and Retirement Study with measures of local crime patterns taken from the Federal … Bureau of Investigation's Unified Crime Reports. If we condition on crime rates alone, there is either a weakly positive or …