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Fear of crime bibliography

A regularly updated fear of crime bibliography is posted here. To read it, click here.

Fear of crime publications - Current

(2003) DITTON, Jason, CHADEE, Derek & KHAN, Furzana"The stability of global and specific measures of the fear of crime: Results from a two wave Trinidadian longitudinal study ", International Review of Victimology, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 49-70.

(2003) DITTON, Jason, "Worry about housebreaking: Is it affected by employment status?", Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies, Vol. 9, pp. 96-99.

(2003) CHADEE, Derek & DITTON, Jason, "Are older people most afraid of crime? Revisiting Ferraro and LaGrange in Trinidad", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 417-433.

 

(2002) SEMMENS, Natasha, DILLANE, Jennifer & DITTON, Jason, "Preliminary findings on seasonality and the fear of crime: A research note", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 798-806.

(2000) DITTON, Jason & FARRALL, Steven (eds) The Fear of Crime, International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology, Dartmouth, Aldershot. To read a list of the chapters in this edited collection, click here. To read the introduction to this edited collection, click here.

(2000) DITTON, Jason & FARRALL, Stephen, "Fear of burglary: Refining national survey questions for use at the local level", International Journal of Police Science & Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 9-18.

(2000) DITTON, Jason, FARRALL, Stephen, BANNISTER, Jon & GILCHRIST, Elizabeth, "Crime Surveys and the Measurement Problem: Fear of Crime", Ch. 8, pp. 142-156 in V. Jupp, P. Davies & P. Francis (eds) Doing Criminological Research, Sage, London. To read more, click here.

(2000) FARRALL, Stephen, BANNISTER, Jon, DITTON, Jason, & GILCHRIST, Elizabeth, "Social Psychology and the fear of crime: Re-examining a speculative model", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 399-413.

(1999) CHADEE, Derek & DITTON, Jason "Fear of Crime in Trinidad: A preliminary empirical research note", Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social Psychology, Vol. 4, Nos. 1-2, pp. 112-129.

(1999) DITTON, Jason, FARRALL, Stephen, BANNISTER, Jon, GILCHRIST, Elizabeth & PEASE, Ken, "Reactions to victimisation: Why has anger been ignored?" Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal, Vol 1, No. 3. pp. 37-54. To read more, click here.

(1999) DITTON, Jason, BANNISTER, Jon, GILCHRIST, Elizabeth & FARRALL, Stephen, "Afraid or Angry? Recalibrating the fear of crime", International Review of Victimology, Vol 6, No. 2, pp. 83-99. To read more, click here.

(1999) DITTON, Jason, BANNISTER, Jon, FARRALL, Stephen & GILCHRIST, Elizabeth, Attitudes to crime, victimisation and the police in Scotland: A comparison of White and Ethnic Minority views, The Scottish Office Central Research Unit, pp. 101. To read the Executive Summary, click here.

(1999) DITTON, Jason, Attitudes to crime, victimisation and the police in Scotland: A comparison of White and Ethnic Minority views, The Scottish Office Central Research Unit Crime and Criminal Justice Research Findings No. 28, pp. 6. The full text of this can be accessed and downloaded by visiting the Scottish Office website (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/cru) and then by clicking on CRU PUBLICATIONS, then on ONLINE CRU PUBLICATIONS BY AREA, then by selecting CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH, and finally by selecting No. 28. Click on the blue site ahead for autorouting: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/cru

(1999) DITTON, Jason "Scottish ethnic minorities, crime, and the police", Ch 17, pp. 302-318, in Neil Hutton and Peter Duff (eds) Criminal Justice in Scotland, Ashgate/Dartmouth, Aldershot. To read more, click here.

(1998) GILCHRIST, Elizabeth; FARRALL, Stephen; BANNISTER, Jon and DITTON, Jason "Women and men talking about the 'fear of crime': Challenging the accepted stereotype", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring, pp. 283-298. To read more, click here.

(1998) DITTON, Jason, FARRALL, Stephen, BANNISTER, Jon & GILCHRIST, Elizabeth, "Measuring fear of crime", Criminal Justice Matters, No. 31, Spring, pp. 10-12. To read more, click here.

(1997) FARRALL, Stephen; BANNISTER, Jon; DITTON, Jason and GILCHRIST, Elizabeth "Questioning the measurement of the 'fear of crime': Findings from a major methodological study", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 657-678. To read more, click here.

(1997) FARRALL, Stephen; BANNISTER, Jon; DITTON, Jason and GILCHRIST, Elizabeth "Open and closed questions", Social Research Update, 17. To read more, click here. To access the whole document from source, click on the blue site ahead: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU17.html

(1995) HARTLESS, Julie M., DITTON, Jason, NAIR, Gwyneth & PHILLIPS, Samuel, "More sinned against than sinning: A study of young teenagers' experience of crime", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 114-133. To read more, click here.

(1993) NAIR, Gwyneth, DITTON, Jason, and PHILLIPS, Samuel, "Environmental improvements and the fear of crime: The sad case of the 'Pond' area in Glasgow", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 555-61. To read more, click here.

 

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(2004) DITTON, Jason, CHADEE, Derek, FARRALL, Stephen, GILCHRIST, Elizabeth & BANNISTER, Jon"From imitation to intimidation: A note on the curious and changing relationship between the media, crime and fear of crime", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 1-16.