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  • The geography of crime fear: A pilot study exploring event-based perceptions of risk using mobile technology

    Author(s)
    Chataway, Michael L
    Hart, Timothy C
    Coomber, Ross
    Bond, Christine
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Bond, Christine E.
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    The current pilot study explores whether mobile technology can be leveraged in survey research to gather meaningful context-dependent data on fear of crime and risk perception formation. A series of Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) were administered to students enrolled at an Australian University (N = 20), using a smartphone application. Analysis of data collected from participants in their everyday activity spaces a) show strong internal consistency among multiple measures of crime fear; b) indicate that perceptual measures of social cohesion are significant predictors of victimisation worry; and c) support most ...
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    The current pilot study explores whether mobile technology can be leveraged in survey research to gather meaningful context-dependent data on fear of crime and risk perception formation. A series of Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) were administered to students enrolled at an Australian University (N = 20), using a smartphone application. Analysis of data collected from participants in their everyday activity spaces a) show strong internal consistency among multiple measures of crime fear; b) indicate that perceptual measures of social cohesion are significant predictors of victimisation worry; and c) support most hypothesised associations between concepts contained in contemporary models of crime fear. Unfortunately, some aspects of the pilot study design could not be implemented as planned, which have implications for future research. Specifically, we found that triggering participant's surveys based on their location (rather than time), produced data that was not conducive to robust place-based analysis. In spite of this limitation, we offer alternative means of measuring the effects of place on fear of crime using mobile devices.
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    Journal Title
    Applied Geography
    Volume
    86
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.06.010
    Subject
    Physical geography and environmental geoscience
    Criminology not elsewhere classified
    Human geography
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/352688
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