TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1974//
TI  - The Fear of Crime in the United States
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Brooks, Jordan
SP  - 241
EP  - 244
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
N2  - Though the citizen's fear of becoming a victim of a crime of violence is irrational, it is nevertheless real and must be heeded by public policy-makers, who would be better equipped to neu tralize it if they had a better understanding of its causes and a better appreciation of its undesirable consequences. The fear of crime in the United States is a fundamental social problem which has not yet received attention in proportion to its severity and which may well prove to be more difficult to treat than criminality itself.<p /> 
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SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001112877402000303
ID  - ref1
ER  -