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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
Time: 11:48 am
Time: 11:48 am
Results for fear of crime (sweden)
1 results foundAuthor: Eriksson, Katarina Title: Fear of Crime and Segregation: The importance of residential areas in relation to the general public's feelings of insecurity and concern about crime Summary: This report deals with and unites two current areas of policy: fear of crime and segregation. The main question is whether housing segregation in Swedish towns and cities affects people’s feelings of insecurity. One of the most important goals within criminal policy is “to make all of Sweden a secure country to live in”. Surveys have shown that a majority of Sweden’s inhabitants feel secure. But one problem is that the fear of crime is unequally distributed. Some groups of resource-poor and vulnerable individuals feel more insecure and worry about becoming victims of crime more than others. Housing segregation means that different groups of people live in separate areas. One effect of segregation that is often emphasised in political debate is increased crime and fear of crime. An underlying theory about negative neighbourhood effects in poorly resourced areas can be seen in many public documents. This posits that the surroundings are expected to influence the circumstances of the individual’s life, irrespective of the individual’s own resources. But it is important to differentiate between composition effects and area/neighbourhood effects. A composition effect only reflects a concentration of a certain population group in a certain area. For instance, earlier research has found that resource-poor and vulnerable groups become victims of crime more often, and worry about crime more than others. As these groups are often concentrated in certain residential areas, it is also a reasonable expectation that the proportion of insecure people is higher in these areas. But the idea of neighbourhood effects is based on a concept of dissemination effects between groups of individuals, in other words, that a concentration of poorly resourced individuals gives rise to something more than a composition effect. A neighbourhood effect means that the surroundings have an independent effect on the individual. For instance, if both resource-poor and resource-rich individuals living in poor areas are more insecure than their equivalents living in more resource-rich areas, this may be an effect of housing segregation. A problem with many studies of neighbourhood effects is that they use aggregated data, or data at the area level, in order to make statements about outcomes at an individual level. But, in order to answer the question of how an individual is affected by his or her environment, it is necessary to combine both individual and area data. The opportunity to study the combined data is now possible by using the Swedish Crime Survey (SCS). This is a victim survey conducted annually by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå). Details: Stockholm: The Swedish National Centre for Crime Prevention, Brå (brottsforebyggande radet), 2008. 17p. Source: A summary of the report 2008:16; Internet Resource: Accessed August 14, 2012 at http://www.bra.se/download/18.cba82f7130f475a2f1800022655/2009_fear_crime_segregation.pdf Year: 2008 Country: Sweden URL: http://www.bra.se/download/18.cba82f7130f475a2f1800022655/2009_fear_crime_segregation.pdf Shelf Number: 126033 Keywords: Community Safety (Sweden)Fear of Crime (Sweden)Neighborhoods and Crime (Sweden)Public Opinion (Sweden)Segregation (Sweden) |