The Costa Rican talk of crime is fundamentally based on the assumption that a formerly explicitly nonviolent nation has been transformed into a battleground for social violence— that is, on the belief that an alarming “crime wave” is occurring today while there was no crime at all in the past. On the basis of this assumption, the fear of crime and the call for zero tolerance and drastic law ...

Using the National Survey of Victimization and Perception Public Safety 2020, aim this study is to analyze fear crime as a product perception knowledge that citizens have government actions. This paper estimates ordinal logistic regression models, which shows high correlation between what know governments do crime. The analysis demonstrates extent Mexicans detect actions aimed at increasing wel...

Findings From a Case Study of Swedish Residential Neighborhoods1 Collective efficacy theory is based on the notion that residents of a neighborhood may share a common sense of trust and willingness to act for the common good (Sampson et al 1997). It is strongly negatively correlated to fear of crime, disorder and several types of violent crime and as such an important theoretical concept (Samps...

Surveys throughout the world have shown consistently that persons over 65 are far less likely to be victims of crime than younger age groups. However, many elderly people are unduly fearful about crime which has an adverse effect on their quality of life. This Trends and Issues puts this matter into perspective, but also discusses the more covert phenomena of abuse and neglect of the elderly. O...