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Fear of Crime in an Island Paradise

2017; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 27; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1057567717698013

1556-3855

Tarah Hodgkinson, Natalie Gately, James McCue, Ahmed Shuhad, Raymond R. Corrado, Martin A. Andresen,

Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Numerous empirical studies have examined fear of crime. Key theoretical constructs include age, gender, vulnerability, marital status, social cohesion, social incivilities, and perceptions of police. While these constructs have extensive empirical support from cross-sectional and longitudinal projects, they focused on Western liberal democratic nations. Little research exists on fear of crime and its correlates within smaller, island nation-states. The current study ( N = 480) examines (a) the prevalence of fear of crime within the Maldives and (b) the extent to which previous theoretical constructs can be generalized to other population areas. Findings demonstrate levels of fear of crime in the Maldives consistent with Western liberal democratic societies but that only certain previous theoretical constructs are associated with variations in fear of crime.