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Social-demographic and social-psychological perspectives of fear of crime in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Researh and theorising about the fear of crime has, in the main, been dominated by researchers who have relied upon sociological or socio-demographic variables to account for variations in fear levels. Whilst this body of work has contributed greatly to our understanding of the fear of crime, we are still far from a full understanding of this important and most corrosive aspect of contemporary society. This paper first presents three independent evaluations of fear of crime. The data, collected in Slovenia, Scotland and Holland, sheds further light on both the social psychological model proposed and the wider study of fear of crime. These evaluations served as a background for the present study of fear of crime in Slovenia in 2001 and Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2002. The results show high level of fear of crime in women, people who perceive themselves as less physically fit, the unemployed, those who expose themselves by walking alone in dark and those who perceive streets and woods as sources of danger. In addition, higher level of fear of crime can be attributed to respondents who consider themselves a potentional vicitm due to the jelousy ot others or being attractive to a potential criminal in other ways, incapable of chasing of a potential assailant, and perceiving places as dangerous (criminalisable space).

fear of crime, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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