Abstract This paper explores farmer’s experiences of crime and their attitudes towards prevention in one rural hinterland. Farmer’s about safety present a dichotomy: fear victimisation was relatively high, yet few participants reported having been victimised, there perception that agricultural high Ireland but low locality. Feelings insecurity were partly influenced by the closure Garda station...

discourse about public safety. In England and Wales, for example, concern about women’s safety has spurred the Home Office, the police, and local authorities to issue safety advice to women. The recognition of the impact of fear of crime (Grade 1989) and the spotlight upon crime prevention combine to place women as prime consumers of targeted advice about personal safety (and indeed, as custome...

Sustainability now influences government policy in the UK, Australia and USA and planning policy currently advocates high density, mixed-use residential developments in ‘walkable’, permeable neighbourhoods, close to public transport, employment and amenities. This clearly demonstrates the growing popularity, influence and application of New Urbanist ideas. This article reviews the criminologica...

Sedentary behaviour is an emerging risk factor for poor health. This study aimed to identify ecological determinants of sedentary behaviour, for which evidence is currently scarce. The study participants were community dwelling adults from, respectively, the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (n = 271, mean age 79) and the 1930s (n = 119, mean age 83) and 1950s (n = 310, mean age 64) cohorts of the West...

1. introduction defenseless spaces including areas with high vulnerability index in the cities due to the population growth and physical expansion on one hand and the exhaustion and destruction across the old areas on the other hand, nowadays are highly increased (laidler, 2009). urban defenseless spaces due to the high influence on urban life especially in order to the sense of fear of crime a...

This chapter evaluates the allure and the danger of attributing race-laden crime politics to displaced anxiety. Stuart Scheingold’s ‘‘myth of crime and punishment’’ was a path-setting theory of redirected fear, arguing that socioeconomic ‘‘fear of falling’’ is displaced onto street crime, where the simple morality tale of lawbreaker-versus-state offers the illusion of control. The danger of thi...

The purpose of this research was to assess the effect of major social changes in Germany since 1989 on mortality due to intentional injury. Mechanisms and types of fatal intentional injury in East and West Germany between 1970 and 1995 were determined from death certificates and compared with judicial data on violent crime convictions and recent public survey data on citizen fear of crime. The ...

This paper addresses the issue of the attitudinal consequences of fear and victimization by focusing on the degree to which people of different ages expresses approval of violent behavior. It is our argument that the experience of victimization socializes the individual to a view as constituting an effective strategy for resolving interpersonal conflict. Data from a national sample of the nonin...