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crime and fear of crime. Forty years of reforms shifted the boundaries between Russian eleven time zones. I find that a …
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Victimization surveys are necessary to estimate crime rates and fear of crime for the general population of a certain … statistics. Only the combination of both data sources allows to quantify crime rates and fear of crime. Therefore, a periodically … victimization survey of the general German population would be valuable for the evaluation and prevention of crime. The present work …
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This paper analyses the effect of local crime rates on the mental well-being of residents. Our identification strategy … addresses the problem of sorting, and endogenous moving behaviour. We find that crime causes considerable mental distress of … residents, and that these effects are mainly driven by property crime. However, individuals react also to violent crime, in …
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Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction … crime and various regional crime rates across European regions, while controlling for potentially confounding socio …-economic variables. We show that fear of crime, criminal victimization and the average regionally perceived fear of crime significantly …
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Evidence shows that crime affects housing prices. However, whether fear of crime impacts equally on prices of …
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate anew fear of crime scale that accurately reflects the current criminal … experiences of older people and test gender differences in fear of crime in a number of items, in the item wording, and in choice … response categories. A series of chi-square tests compared the fear of crime scale of older people according to their gender …
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Victimization surveys are necessary to estimate crime rates and fear of crime for the general population of a certain … statistics. Only the com bination of both data sources allows to quantify crime rates and fear of crime. Therefore, a period … ically victimization survey of the general German population would be valuable for the evaluation and preve ntion of crime …
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