TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Across the wide prairie: exploring fear of crime in a small Canadian municipality
JO  - Journal of criminology (Thousand Oaks)
A1  - Hodgkinson, Tarah
A1  - Lunney, Kate
SP  - 109
EP  - 125
VL  - 54
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2633-8076
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865821999082
ID  - ref1
ER  -