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Title | ||
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Bridging the perceptual gap: variations in crime perception of businesses at the neighborhood level |
Abstract | ||
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Current research on fear of crime reveals a recurrent theme of disorder in explanations of fear of crime and perceptions of security. This disorder is scalable, ranging from proximal cues associated with specific encounters between people or defined micro locations through to distal feelings of fear about areas, activity nodes, or major pathways. The research presented here compares two samples (n = 235) of businesses surveyed during the summer of 2012 in Grandview-Woodland, a diverse neighborhood, in the City of Vancouver, Canada. A visualization technique is presented to demonstrate how aggregate cognitive maps about perception of crime can be created and used by civic agencies when determining strategies aimed at reducing fear of crime. The results show that although both samples are taken from the same geographical neighborhood, their specific location within the community generates two very distinct perceptual patterns. Differences between the impact of proximal and distal cues on perception is explored. Other variations in perception are studied including differences between males and females, business owners and employees and those who have been victims of property crime versus personal crime. The results are presented and future research directions discussed. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1186/s13388-014-0014-4 | Security Informatics |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Business security, Fear of crime, Disorder, Cognitive | Journal | 3 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
1 | 2190-8532 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.35 | 2 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valerie Spicer | 1 | 23 | 5.46 |
| Justin Song | 2 | 6 | 2.33 |
| Patricia L. Brantingham | 3 | 85 | 18.76 |