Fear of Crime in Time and Place: Developing and Testing a New Momentary Social-Psychological Model of Victimisation Worry
Journal: Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia)
Year: 2018

Scholars have studied fear of crime for many years, with a number of predictors of crime fear identified. Despite the growing body of fear of crime literature, the measurements, methods, and theories currently used to examine fear of crime are in need of significant innovation. Specifically, scholars continue to rely on single item measures to gauge fear of crime, ignoring its multidimensionality. Moreover, existing methods used to capture fear of crime and risk have restricted researchers’ abil