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Citation

Mijanovich T, Weitzman BC. J. Urban Health 2003; 80(3): 400-415.

Affiliation

New York, NY 10003, USA. tm11@nyu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12930879

Abstract

Young people's fears of victimization and

feelings of unsafety constitute a serious and pervasive public health problem

and appear to be associated with different factors than actual victimization.

Our analysis of a population-based telephone survey of youths aged 10-18 years

in five economically distressed cities and their suburbs reveals that a

substantial minority of youths feel unsafe on any given day, and that an even

greater number feel unsafe in school. While some traditional predictors of

victimization (such as low socioeconomic status) were associated with feeling

unsafe, perceived school disorder was the major factor associated with such

feelings. Disorderliness may thus be the school's version of "broken

windows," which serve to signal to students a lack of consistent adult

concern and oversight that can leave them feeling unsafe. We suggest that fixing

the broken windows of school disorderliness may have a significant, positive

impact on adolescents' feelings of safety.

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