Fear of crime and the media: Assessing the lack of relationship

Crime, Media, Culture

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 322-332

  Chadee, Derek ^a   Ditton, Jason ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fear of crime; Media; Survey data; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349093916     PISSN: 17416590     EISSN: 17416604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741659005057644     Document Type: Article

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