objective crime trends could have on such perceptions. The results show that information improves perceptions of safety 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 …

Punitive anti-crime policies in the Americas have contributed to steadily increasing rates of incarceration. This … politically attractive for politicians. Yet the contextual determinants of participation in crime are rarely understood by the … public. In this paper, we employ a survey experiment conducted in Chile in order to examine how the provision of information …

We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We … differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a … decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental …

focus on crime perceptions and, combining channel-specific viewership and content data, we show that the reduced exposure to … channels characterized by high levels of crime reporting decreases individual concerns about crime. The effect is driven by … individuals aged 50 and over, who turn out to be more exposed to television while using other sources of information less …