Predictors of fear of criminal victimization at school among adolescents

Sociological Spectrum

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-168

  May, David C ^a   Dunaway, R Gregory ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034417827     PISSN: 02732173     EISSN: 15210707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/027321700279938     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Arndt, Randolph C. 1995. School Violence in America’s Cities. Washington, DC: National League of Cities.
2. Arthur, John A. 1992. “Criminal Victimization, Fear of Crime, and Handgun Ownership Among Blacks: Evidence from National Survey Data.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 16(2):121-141.
3. Baumer, Terry L. 1978. “Research on Fear of Crime in the United States.” Victimology 3(3, 4):254-64.
4. Baumer, Terry L. 1985. “Testing a General Model of Fear of Crime: Data from a National Sample.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 22(3):239-55.
5. Braithwaite, John. 1981. “The Myth of Social Class and Criminology Reconsidered.” American Sociological Review 46:36-57.
6. Brownfield, David. 1986. “Social Class and Violent Behavior.” Criminology 24:421-37.
7. Bursik, Robert J. Jr., and Harold G. Grasmick. 1993. Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective Community Control. New York: Lexington Books.
8. Chandler, Kathryn A., Christopher D. Chapman, Michael R. Rand, and Bruce M. Taylor. 1998. Students Reports of School Crime: 1989 and 1995. (NCES 98-241/NCJ-169607), Washington, DC: U.S. Departments of Education and Justice.
9. Chiricos, Ted, Michael Hogan, and Marc Gertz. 1997. “Racial Composition of Neighborhood and Fear of Crime.” Criminology 35(1):107-31.
10. Clemente, Frank and Michael Kleiman. 1976. “Fear of Crime among the Aged.” The Gerontologist 16(3):207-10.
11. Clemente, Frank and Michael Kleiman. 1977. “Fear of Crime in the United States: A Multivariate Analysis.” Social Forces 56(2):519-31.
12. Covington, Jeanette and Ralph B. Taylor. 1991. “Fear of Crime in Urban Residential Neighborhoods: Implications of Between- and Within-Neighborhood Sources for Current Models.” Sociological Quarterly 32(2):231-49.
13. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1999. Crime in the United States-1998. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.
14. Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. 1998. America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
15. Ferraro, Kenneth F. 1995. Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk. Albany: State University of New York Press.
16. Ferraro, Kenneth and Randy LaGrange. 1987. “The Measurement of Fear of Crime.” Sociological Inquiry 57(1):70-101.
17. Fingerhut, Lois A., Deborah D. Ingram, and Jacob J. Feldman. 1992. “Firearm and Nonfirearm Homicides among Persons 15 Through 19 Years of Age.” Journal of the American Medical Association 267(22):3048-53.
18. Garofalo, James. 1979. “Victimization and the Fear of Crime.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 16(1):80-97.
19. Gordon, Margaret T. and Stephanie Riger. 1989. The Female Fear. New York: Free Press.
20. Hale, Chris. 1996. “Fear of Crime: A Review of the Literature.” International Review of Victimology 4:79-150.
21. Hepburn, John R. and Daniel J. Monti. 1979. “Victimization, Fear of Crime, and Adaptive Responses among High School Students.” Pp. 121-32 in Perspectives on Victimology. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
22. Kachur, S. Patrick, Gail M. Stennies, Kenneth E. Powell, William Modzeleski, Ronald Stephens, Rosemary Murphy, Marcie-Jo Kresnow, David Sleet, and Richard Lowry. 1996. “School-Associated Violent Deaths in the United States, 1992 to 1994.” Journal of the American Medical Association 275(22):1729-33.
23. Kann, Laura, Steven A. Kinchen, Barbara I. Williams, James G. Ross, Richard Lowry, Carl V. Hill, Jo Anne Grunbaum, Pamela S. Blumson, Janet L. Collins, and Lloyd J. Kolbe. 1998. “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance-United States, 1997.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 47(SS-3).
24. Kaufman, Phillip, Xianglei Chen, Susan P. Choy, Kathryn A. Chandler, Christopher D. Chapman, Michael Rand, and Cheryl Ringel. 1998. Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 1998. NCES 98-251/NCJ-172215, Washington, DC: U.S. Departments of Education and Justice.
25. LaGrange, Randy L. and Kenneth F. Ferraro, 1989. “Assessing Age and Gender Differences in Perceived Risk and Fear of Crime.” Criminology 27(4):697-719.
26. LaGrange, Randy L., Kenneth F. Ferraro, and Michael Supancic. 1992. “Perceived Risk and Fear of Crime: Role of Social and Physical Incivilities.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 29(3):311-34.
27. Maguire, Kathleen and Ann L. Pastore, eds. 1996. Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1994. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
28. Metropolitan Life. 1993. Survey of the American Teacher, 1993: Violence in America’s Public Schools. New York: Louis Harris and Associates.
29. National Education Goals Panel. 1993. The National Education Goals Report, 1993. Washington, DC: National Education Goals Panel.
30. Parents Resource Institute for Drug Education. 1996. 1995-96 National Summary, Grades 6-12. Atlanta, GA: Author.
31. Parker, Keith D. 1988. “Black-White Differences in Perceptions of Fear of Crime.” The Journal of Social Psychology 128(4):487-98.
32. Parker, Keith D. and Anne B. Onyekwuluje. 1992. “The Influence of Demographic and Economic Factors on Fear of Crime Among African-Americans.” The Western Journal of Black Studies 16(3):132-40.
33. Parker, Keith D. and Melvin C. Ray. 1990. “Fear of Crime: An Assessment of Related Factors.” Sociological Spectrum 10:29-40.
34. Parker, Keith D., Barbara J. McMorris, Earl Smith, and Komandur S. Murty. 1993. “Fear of Crime and the Likelihood of Victimization: A Bi-Ethnic Comparison.” The Journal of Social Psychology 133(5):723-32.
35. Rohe, William M. and Raymond J. Burby. 1988. “Fear of Crime in Public Housing.” Environment and Behavior 20(6):700-20.
36. Rountree, Pamela Wilcox and Kenneth C. Land. 1996. “Perceived Risk Versus Fear of Crime: Empirical Evidence of Conceptually Distinct Reactions in Survey Data.” Social Forces 74(4):1353-76.
37. Taylor, Ralph B. and Jeanette Covington. 1993. “Community Structural Change and Fear of Crime.” Social Problems 40(3):374-94.
38. Thompson, Carol Y., William B. Bankston, and Roberta St. Pierre. 1989. “Parity and Disparity among Three Measures of Fear of Crime: A Research Note.” Deviant Behavior 13:373-89.
39. Thompson, Carol Y., William B. Bankston, and Roberta St. Pierre. 1991. “Single Female-Headed Households, Handgun Possession, and the Fear of Rape.” Sociological Spectrum 11(3):231-44.
40. U.S. Department of Justice. 1996. Criminal Victimization in the United States, 1994. Bulletin NCJ-158022, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
41. Warr, Mark. 1984. “Fear of Victimization: Why Are Women and the Elderly More Afraid ?” Social Science Quarterly 65:681-702.
42. Warr, Mark. 1990. “Dangerous Situations: Social Context and Fear of Victimization.” Social Forces 68(3):891-907.
43. Wayne, Ivor and Robert J. Rubel. 1982. “Student Fear in Secondary Schools.” Urban Review 14(3):197-237.
44. Will, Jeffry A. and John H. McGrath III. 1995. “Crime, Neighborhood Perceptions, and the Underclass: The Relationship Between Fear of Crime and Class Position.” Journal of Criminal Justice 23(2):163-76.
45. Williams, J. Sherwood, B. Krishna Dingh, and Betsy B. Singh. 1996. “Urban Youth, Fear of Crime, and Resulting Defensive Actions.” Adolescence 29(114):323-31.