Drawing on research on authoritarianism, this study analyzes the relationship between levels of threat in society and representations of crime, law, and order in mass media, with a particular emphasis on the superhero genre. Although the superhero genre is viewed as an important site of mediated images of crime and law enforcement, cultural criminologists have been relatively quiet about this f...

Older women have been viewed as vulnerable and fearful of crime, but little is known about how they try to reduce the risk of intrusion relative to encounters with troublesome visitors at home. During a phenomenological study of the home care experience, 6 women (aged 82-93 years) reported such an encounter with someone they knew. Our purpose was to describe intentions relative to encounters an...

It is well recognized that community safety which affects people’s right to live without fear of crime has considerable impacts on housing investments. Housing investors can make more informed decisions if they are fully aware of safety related factors. To this end, we develop a safety-aware house ranking method by incorporating community safety into house assessment. Specifically, we first pro...

The relationship between vegetation, transportation networks, and crime has been under debate. Vegetation has been positively correlated with fear of crime; however, the actual correlation between vegetation and occurrences of crime is uncertain. Transportation networks have also been connected with crime occurrence but their impact on crime tends to vary over different circumstances. By conduc...

Abstract This study considers and simultaneously tests the role of ethnic diversity out-group size in relation to individuals’ perceptions neighborhood cohesion fear crime among natives Dutch neighborhoods. We challenge way impact has been studied previously propose an alternative measure examine effects. results a better understanding how why composition may levels fear, thereby contributes li...