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Perceived community disorder moderates the relation between victimization and fear of crime
Author(s) -
Roccato Michele,
Russo Silvia,
Vieno Alessio
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.20470
Subject(s) - fear of crime , psychology , population , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , environmental health
In a representative sample of the Italian population ( N =2,002), surveyed in January 2008, we studied the direct and interactive effects exerted on fear of crime by direct and indirect victimization, on the one hand, and perceived level of disorder of participants' community, on the other hand. Indirect victimization fostered fear of crime among participants reporting high levels of social disorder in their community. However, direct and indirect victimization did not influence fear of crime among participants reporting not living in a disordered community. Implications and limitations of this work and possible further research directions are discussed. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.