@article{ref1,
title="Across the wide prairie: exploring fear of crime in a small Canadian municipality",
journal="Journal of criminology (Thousand Oaks)",
year="2021",
author="Hodgkinson, Tarah and Lunney, Kate",
volume="54",
number="2",
pages="109-125",
abstract="Although fear of crime is well-researched in urban domains, the predictors of fear of crime in non-urban contexts are less established. Using a sample of 559 people, this study aims to address this gap by evaluating the role of individual and ecological-level predictors on fear of crime in a small Canadian municipality. Key findings of this study include support for the influence of social cohesion, informal social control and social and physical disorder on fear in a small municipality. However, no clear relationship is found between gender and fear of crime. Additionally, nuanced relationships between social predictors and fear emerge that may be uniquely explained by non-metropolitan context. The findings have implications for the use of urban-based criminological theories of fear and for the use of crime prevention and fear reduction strategies in non-metropolitan contexts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2633-8076",
doi="10.1177/0004865821999082",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865821999082"
}