TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a model of perceptions of security and insecurity in the context of crime
AU - Reid, Iain Douglas
AU - Appleby-Arnold, Sandra
AU - Brockdorff, Noellie
AU - Jakovljev, Ivana
AU - Zdravković, Sunčica
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported in this paper was undertaken as part of CITYCoP (Citizen Interaction Technologies Yield Community Policing), a project funded by the European Union within the Horizon 2020 Programme (2014–2020), Grant Agreement Number 653811. Authors would like to thank: the coordinators of the CITYCoP project, Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici and Joseph A. Cannataci of the University of Groningen; Jelena Radanović (who worked at the University of Novi Sad) for her assistance with the literature review about fear of crime for the CITYCoP project; the Department of Information Policy and Governance of the University of Malta for help with the coordination of the collection of data; and all CITYCoP partners who were involved in the recruitment of participants.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The current study was carried out as part of the CITYCOP project exploring fear of crime, risk perception and feelings of security and insecurity. Participants (n = 272) from 11 European countries answered a questionnaire exploring measures of risk perception, fear of crime, anxiety, trust in police and related behaviours. A seven-factor structure is proposed incorporating ‘Signs of Social and Physical Disorder’, ‘Trust in Police’, ‘Trait Anxiety’, ‘Collective Efficacy’, ‘Perceived Risk of Victimisation’, ‘Fear of Personal Harm’ and ‘Fear of Property Theft’. Overall findings suggest that the measures associated with feelings of insecurity are negatively related to the measures associated with feelings of security. Efforts should be made to reduce feelings of insecurity through encouraging trust in law enforcement and community interaction and reducing signs of social and physical disorder.
AB - The current study was carried out as part of the CITYCOP project exploring fear of crime, risk perception and feelings of security and insecurity. Participants (n = 272) from 11 European countries answered a questionnaire exploring measures of risk perception, fear of crime, anxiety, trust in police and related behaviours. A seven-factor structure is proposed incorporating ‘Signs of Social and Physical Disorder’, ‘Trust in Police’, ‘Trait Anxiety’, ‘Collective Efficacy’, ‘Perceived Risk of Victimisation’, ‘Fear of Personal Harm’ and ‘Fear of Property Theft’. Overall findings suggest that the measures associated with feelings of insecurity are negatively related to the measures associated with feelings of security. Efforts should be made to reduce feelings of insecurity through encouraging trust in law enforcement and community interaction and reducing signs of social and physical disorder.
KW - Community policing
KW - fear of crime
KW - insecurity
KW - risk perception
KW - security
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084306654&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13218719.2020.1742235
DO - 10.1080/13218719.2020.1742235
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084306654
SN - 1321-8719
VL - 27
SP - 620
EP - 636
JO - Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
JF - Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
IS - 4
ER -
