Community Activities to Protect Children from Crime, People's General Trust, and Attitude toward the Activities in Japan

We distributed questionnaire booklets to households in Tsukuba city, Japan. The questionnaire included questions regarding attitudes toward local crime prevention activities, perception about public safety and crime related anxiety, and sociodemographic variables. The result showed that elder people...

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Published in:Procedia, social and behavioral sciences social and behavioral sciences, 2012, Vol.38, p.40-50
Main Authors: Shibata, Seiji, Hanyu, Kazunori, Asakawa, Tatsuto, Shimada, Takahito, Omata, Kenji
Format: Article
Language:English
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Crime prevention
fear of crime
perceptions about public safety
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Summary:We distributed questionnaire booklets to households in Tsukuba city, Japan. The questionnaire included questions regarding attitudes toward local crime prevention activities, perception about public safety and crime related anxiety, and sociodemographic variables. The result showed that elder people have much stronger attitude toward community crime prevention compared to younger people. The result also showed that people who have more emergent sense of crisis about their community tend to have an attitude that community crime prevention is their own issue, and people who have inconsistent fear of crime tend to have an aloof attitude toward community crime prevention activities.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.03.322