Open Access»Preventiva pred kurativo« – samozaščitno vedenje mladih pred kriminaliteto
Author(s) -
Vanja Erčulj
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18690/978-961-286-442-2.14
Subject(s) - worry , fear of crime , psychology , crime prevention , focus group , criminology , qualitative research , focus (optics) , social psychology , sociology , psychiatry , anxiety , social science , physics , anthropology , optics
Fear of crime influences different aspects of life of an individual and community that is why it has been a frequent research topic for the last 50 years. Researchers focus primarily on factors related to emotional aspect of fear, that is worry of citizens that they become a victim of crime. To lower extent they focus on behavioural aspect, that is preventive measures people take to protect themselves from crime. This paper addresses this research topic. Qualitative and quantitative research was performed on young adults as they have higher chance of becoming a victim of crime. Main study objective was to examine preventive measures the young adults take to protect themselves from crime and the role of demographic, social and other factors in their self-protective behaviour.