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 …

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

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

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 …

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 …

The present report analyzes crime reporting in newspapers and compares this to actual crime rates and fear of crime …. One key finding is that crime-related issues play a comparativelyminor role in local editions of regional subscription …. It is often alleged that crime in the media is ubiquitous but this can only be confirmed to a limited degree in local …

Economists of the Public Choice School have argued that compensation payments to victims of crime will increase the … crime rate. This proposition is examined by estimating crime supply functions for rape and aggravated assault in which the … shows that victim compensation does ot increase the supply of crime.  …

Purpose – Negative effects of crime encompass several different dimensions. As a result, there is no existing … between the various dimensions of the welfare cost of crime and violence available in the literature. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper develops a theoretical model of crime and illustrates the different interpretations of welfare costs of crime …