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  • Predicting perceptions of crime: Community residents' recognition and classification of local crime problems

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    Schaefer, Lacey
    Mazerolle, Lorraine
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    Schaefer, Lacey
    Mazerolle, Lorraine A.
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    In the scholarship of crime prevention, little is understood regarding the prompts for individual observation and classification of local crime problems. Moreover, studies that evaluate individuals’ perceptions of crime tend to emphasise the risk of victimisation rather than the probability of crime controller behaviour. In order to predict whether and how a community resident combats neighbourhood crime and disorder, we first require a greater understanding of how individuals recognise and categorise those same neighbourhood phenomena. To explore these processes, the current project uses large-scale multilevel survey data ...
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    In the scholarship of crime prevention, little is understood regarding the prompts for individual observation and classification of local crime problems. Moreover, studies that evaluate individuals’ perceptions of crime tend to emphasise the risk of victimisation rather than the probability of crime controller behaviour. In order to predict whether and how a community resident combats neighbourhood crime and disorder, we first require a greater understanding of how individuals recognise and categorise those same neighbourhood phenomena. To explore these processes, the current project uses large-scale multilevel survey data from the Australian Community Capacity Study to test the predictive influence of individual characteristics, local social processes, and suburb features on a resident’s identification and categorisation of minor, moderate, and major neighbourhood crime problems. Results indicate that lived experiences with prior victimisation and interactions with the police, greater frequencies of neighbouring behaviours but lower levels of collective efficacy, socioeconomic disadvantage, and ethnic homogeneity are all associated with a greater likelihood of reporting serious local crime problems.
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    Journal Title
    Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865817721590
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    Schaefer & Mazerolle, Predicting perceptions of crime: Community residents' recognition and classification of local crime problems Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Pages 1-21, 2017. © 2017 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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    Subject
    Criminology
    Causes and prevention of crime
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/376373
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