NCJ Number
154885
Journal
American Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Dated: (1993) Pages: 1-23
Date Published
1993
Length
23 pages
Annotation
This study uses secondary data from the National Crime Survey: Victim Risk Supplement, 1983, to investigate citizen participation in five crime prevention domains within large urban areas and small town/rural areas.
Abstract
The domains and the corresponding crime prevention measures are personal access control (multiple door locks, door peepholes), personal security (owning firearms for protection, owning a dog for protection, carrying protection away from home), surveillance (participating in neighborhood watch, watching neighbors' homes), avoidance (staying home), and target hardening (burglar alarms, property marking). Factor scores computed for each respondent comprise the dependent variables in the current analysis. The results suggest that, although there are some similarities in citizen participation, various factors have different degrees of impact in different locations. Further, differences in crime prevention participation are more a function of the type of crime prevention than of the size of the local population. 5 tables and 61 references