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Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Prieto Curiel, R; Bishop, SR; (2018) Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation. Palgrave Communications , 4 , Article 46. 10.1057/s41599-018-0094-8. Green open access

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Abstract

There is often a mismatch between levels of crime and the fear of becoming a victim of crime. It is not uncommon to find individuals who suffer little or no crime but yet who are still fearful of some future crime. Alternatively, a place or region might see an increase in crime over time while the fear of crime remains unchanged. Building on a model that previously considered the fear of crime as an opinion shared by simulated individuals, here the impact that different distributions of crime have on the fear experienced by the population is analysed. Simulating the dynamics of the fear of individuals, along with changes of the distribution of crime, leads to results which show that fear is sensitive to the distribution of crime and that there is a phase transition for high levels of concentration of crime. A policy may be oriented to reduce crime, so that the population effectively suffers less crime, but if the victimisation is displaced to other individuals, then the perception of insecurity may not decrease, with fear becoming more widespread.

Type: Article
Title: Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0094-8
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0094-8
Language: English
Additional information: Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords: Complex networks, Criminology
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10048689
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