title: Perceived Risk of Burglary and Fear of Crime: Individual- and Country-Level Mixed Modeling.
abstract: Given the scarcity of prior studies, the current research introduced country-level variables, along with individual-level ones, to test how they are related to an individual's perceived risk of burglary (PRB) and fear of crime (FC), separately, by using mixed-level logistic regression analyses. The analyses of 104,218 individuals, residing in 50 countries, showed that country-level poverty was positively associated with FC only. However, individual-level variables, such as prior property crime victimization and female gender, had consistently positive relationships with both PRB and FC. However, age group and socioeconomic status were inconsistent between those two models, suggesting that PRB and FC are two different concepts. Finally, no significant difference in the pattern of PRB and FC was found between a highly developed group of countries and a less developed one.
authors.affiliation: Auburn University at Montgomery, AL, USA dchon@aum.edu.
authors.forename: Don Soo
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Chon
authors.affiliation: Auburn University at Montgomery, AL, USA.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013800:Theft / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: International Crime Victimization Survey; country-level variables; country’s development level and fear of crime; fear of crime; perceived risk of burglary