This thesis explores the distribution of fear of crime in neighbourhoods next to gated communities, and their variants, by considering poverty levels and elements of the built environment. Fear of crime is a constant ...

Independently of the varying national homicide indexes, the fear of crime affects all sociopolitical dimensions across Latin American countries and influences the agendas of political parties, security markets, and everyday ...

A violência criminal desenfreada é uma das questões mais prementes da América Latina. Ainda assim, poucos estudos investigam as consequências atitudinais dessa questão. Esta dissertação analisa o impacto do medo do crime ...

Latin America is a violent region where fear of crime is well spread but still not fully understood. Using multilevel methods for a large and subnational representative household survey (N = 271,022), we assess the ...

This study, a sociological perspective, has aimed to investigate the possible existence of a relation between the social phenomena fear of crime and moral panic. The study was realized through a research in Superinteressante ...

Spatial segregation is one of the main consequences of building gated communities. They are typically walled or fenced, with private security and surveillance devices. Gated communities have been spreading rapidly in ...

O artigo é produto de três pesquisas de vitimização realizadas em Marília/SP, entre os anos de 2001 e 2008, com o objetivo de conhecer a dinâmica do crime sob a ótica da vítima real (objetiva) e captar os sentimentos de ...