@article{ref1,
title="Lifestyle, rational choice, and adolescent fear: a test of a risk‐assessment framework",
journal="Criminology",
year="2009",
author="Melde, Chris",
volume="47",
number="3",
pages="781-812",
abstract="Criminological research on fear of crime primarily has been based on, and supportive of, an opportunity framework. The current research tests an expanded risk-assessment model of fear, which is rooted in an opportunity framework, by incorporating a measure of delinquent lifestyle, which is a known risk factor for victimization, using a sample of youth aged 10–16 years. The findings from longitudinal structural equation models do not support the applicability of a risk-assessment model of fear in adolescence. Namely, although increased involvement in a delinquent lifestyle is associated strongly with an increase in victimization over time, no such association exists with the perceived risk of victimization. Most importantly, as adolescents become more involved in a delinquent lifestyle and are victimized at a higher rate than nondelinquent youth, their fear of victimization actually decreases at a significantly higher rate than more prosocial youth.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0011-1384",
doi="10.1111/j.1745-9125.2009.00157.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2009.00157.x"
}