Fear of crime

Criminology
Main Theories
Conflict theory Criminalization Differential association Integrative criminology Rational choice theory Structural functionalism Subcultural theory Symbolic interactionism
Methods
Comparative Crime statistics Fear of crime Dark figure Under-reporting Profiling Ethnography Uniform Crime Reports Crime mapping Positivist school Qualitative Quantitative BJS NIBRS Recidivism
Subfields and other major theories
American Anthropological Biosocial criminology Conflict Criminology Critical Culture Cyber Demography Development Environmental Experimental Organizational Political Public Radical criminology
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Fear of crime refers to the fear of being a victim of crime, which is not necessarily reflective of the actual probability of being such a victim.^[1]