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Community responses to tourism and crime

Author(s) -

Paul Brunt,

Natalie Hooton

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

crime prevention and community safety

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.469

H-Index - 21

eISSN - 1743-4629

pISSN - 1460-3780

DOI - 10.1057/cpcs.2009.7

Subject(s) - tourism , fear of crime , destinations , civil disorder , crime prevention , perception , impacts of tourism , marketing , advertising , tourism geography , criminology , business , geography , poison control , suicide prevention , psychology , environmental health , medicine , archaeology , domestic violence , neuroscience

Tourism is known to bring about positive and negative changes in destinations. This paper explores how tourism business owners' lives and residents within the tourism area of an English seaside resort respond in their behaviour as a consequence of tourism-related crime and their fear of such crimes. Through a mixture of primary and secondary data analysis it is clear that crime in the case study area increases during the tourism season. The results suggested that these are changes in behaviour made by parking in different locations; socializing differently; bypassing specific streets at night; and carrying out additional security checks in the home. Perceptions of the destination and of criminal activity were found to vary in relation to occupation and involvement with the tourism industry, and there were associations with socio-demographic variables and the level of attachment to the town.

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