Safe Habitats: Does the Association Between Neighborhood Crime and Walking Differ by Neighborhood Disadvantage?

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Foster, S
Hooper, P
Burton, NW
Brown, WJ
Giles-Corti, B
Rachele, JN
Turrell, G
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Interrelationships between neighborhood walkability, area disadvantage, and crime may contribute to the inconsistent associations between crime and walking. We examined associations between crime and walking, and tested for differences by neighborhood disadvantage while addressing these additional complexities. Participants (n = 6,680) from 200 neighborhoods spanning the most and least disadvantaged in Brisbane, Australia, completed a questionnaire and objective measures were generated for the individual-level 1,000-m neighborhood. Multilevel models examined associations between crime (perceived and objective) and walking (recreational and transport), and interactions tested for differences by neighborhood disadvantage. High perceived crime was associated with reduced odds of transport walking, whereas high objective crime was associated with increased odds of transport walking. Patterns did not differ by neighborhood disadvantage. In disadvantaged neighborhoods, the “negative” criminogenic attributes were insufficient to outweigh the “positive” walkability attributes, producing similar walking patterns to advantaged neighborhoods where residents were dislocated from local destinations but buffered from crime.

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Environment and Behavior

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Foster S, Hooper P, Burton NW, Brown WJ, Giles-Corti B, Rachele J, Turrell G. Safe HABITATs: Does the association between neighbourhood crime and walking differ by neighbourhood disadvantage? Environment & Behaviour. Copyright 2019 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.

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Built environment and design

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Foster, S; Hooper, P; Burton, NW; Brown, WJ; Giles-Corti, B; Rachele, JN; Turrell, G, Safe Habitats: Does the Association Between Neighborhood Crime and Walking Differ by Neighborhood Disadvantage?, Environment and Behavior, 2019

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