Reassessing the Fear of Crime

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Functional Fear and Public Insecurities About Crime (2010, background): “Recent quantitative work (Jackson, 2004; Farrall et al., 2009; see also Gray et al., 2008a, 2008b) has also differentiated between an everyday worry (those concrete emotions that result from feeling personally threatened) and a more diffuse/ambient anxiety (a more common feeling of generalised risk…”
Contact and confidence: revisiting the impact of public encounters with the police (2009, background): “7 It is preferable when measuring the fear of crime, however, to also include questions about the actual frequency with which individuals worry (Farrall & Gadd 2004; Gray et al. in press; Jackson et al. 2007).”
A psychological perspective on vulnerability in the fear of crime (2009, background): “However when one probes respondents further one finds that the number of individuals who worry on an everyday basis is actually quite a bit smaller (Farrall & Gadd, 2004; Farrall et al., 1997; Gray et al., 2008a).”