Citation

Chon DS, Wilson M. Int. J. Offender Ther. Comp. Criminol. 2014; 60(3): 308-325.

Affiliation

Auburn University at Montgomery, AL, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0306624X14551257

PMID

25223343

Abstract

Given the scarcity of prior studies, the current research introduced country-level variables, along with individual-level ones, to test how they are related to an individual's perceived risk of burglary (PRB) and fear of crime (FC), separately, by using mixed-level logistic regression analyses. The analyses of 104,218 individuals, residing in 50 countries, showed that country-level poverty was positively associated with FC only. However, individual-level variables, such as prior property crime victimization and female gender, had consistently positive relationships with both PRB and FC. However, age group and socioeconomic status were inconsistent between those two models, suggesting that PRB and FC are two different concepts. Finally, no significant difference in the pattern of PRB and FC was found between a highly developed group of countries and a less developed one.

Language: en