This article reviews the literature on fear of crime of interest to the geographical and
environmental disciplines. After discussing definitional and methodological issues, the …

Racial threat theory was developed as a way to explain how population composition
influences discriminatory social control practices and has become one of the most …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

Previous research shows that people commonly exaggerate the size of minority populations.
Theories of intergroup threat predict that the larger people perceive minority groups to be …

In ethnic and racial terms, America is growing rapidly more diverse. Yet attempts to extend
racial threat hypotheses to today's immigrants have generated inconsistent results. This …

Early on in the discovery of fear of crime as a phenomenon sha** the life of cities, signifi
cant social differences in its experience were recognised. Today, the empirical and …

Criminal events capture the attention of the general public in a way that few other events can
(cf. Skogan and Maxfield 1981). One reason is that crimes receive extraordinary emphasis in …

This article investigates the relationship between neighborhood racial composition and
perceptions residents have of their neighborhood's level of crime. The study uses questions …

Abstract Design and construction professionals are entrusted to design built environments
that can assure public safety. Crime statistics is one indicator that reflects the correlation …

We extend existing research on police use of coercive mechanisms of social control against
racial/ethnic minority populations by testing three structural hypotheses regarding excessive …