A study on the influence of community environment perception on residents'fear of crime:Take Guangzhou as an example
The fear of crime is an important factor that reduces residents'subjective well-being and life satis-faction.It is also an important research content in disciplines such as crime geography.According to differ-ences in research perspectives,it can be divided into five aspects:psychological perspective,individual per-spective,environmental perspective,daily activities perspective and crime prevention and control perspective,and has formed the victimization model,vulnerability model,disorder model,collective efficacy model and community policing model and other theoretical models.However,in terms of the impact of environment on fear of crime,existing research has mainly focused on the objective environment,and research on the subject-ive level of community environment perception is relatively weak.To this end,the research selected seventy-four typical communities in Guangzhou.A total of 1 568 questionnaires through household surveys were dis-tributed to study the impact of community environment perception on fear of crime,including perception of en-vironmental disorder,perception of collective efficacy and perception of social control.The results show that in addition to gender,age and crime victimization experience having a significant impact on fear of crime,com-munity environment perception also has an important impact on fear of crime.Among them,the perception of disorder in the social environment and the perception of disorder in the physical environment have a signific-ant positive effect on the fear of crime.The impact of collective efficacy perception on the fear of crime is not significant.Social control could be divided into two aspects,formal social control and informal social control.Formal social control has a significant inhibitory effect on fear of crime,while informal control has no signific-ant effect on fear of crime.
fear of crimecommunity environment perceptionenvironment disordersocial controlcollect-ive efficacy
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