Introducing fear of crime to risk research

Risk Analysis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 253-264

  Jackson, Jonathan ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion and cognition; Expressive function of risk perception; Fear of crime; Image of crime; Risk perception; Social amplification of risk

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EMOTION AND COGNITION; EXPRESSIVE FUNCTION OF RISK PERCEPTION; FEAR OF CRIME; IMAGE OF CRIME; SOCIAL AMPLIFICATION OF RISK;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CRIME; PERCEPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CRIME; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEAR; GOVERNMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 33645100962     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00715.x     Document Type: Review

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