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Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey Data
Sorgen über Kriminalität bei europäischen Bürgern: modellgestützte Messung mit Daten des European Social Survey
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Abstract "This paper examines new measures of fear of crime fielded in the European Social Survey. We use an analytical approach that combines statistical latent class modelling with pragmatic choices for the final classification of the responses into a six-category measure. We undertake an informal examinat... view more
"This paper examines new measures of fear of crime fielded in the European Social Survey. We use an analytical approach that combines statistical latent class modelling with pragmatic choices for the final classification of the responses into a six-category measure. We undertake an informal examination of the latent class solution in individual countries, and we show that frequency and impact indicators are reliable cross-national indicators (with configural or construct validity) of the experience of negative emotions about crime in people's lives. Our subsequent estimation of levels of worry in 23 European countries sheds important light on the psychological patterning of worry about crime across Europe." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
criminality; citizen; EU; anxiety; EU member state
Classification
Research Design
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 109-125
Journal
Survey Research Methods, 8 (2014) 2
ISSN
1864-3361
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications