Fear of crime and the environment: Systematic review of UK qualitative evidence

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lorenc, Theo ^a   Petticrew, Mark ^a   Whitehead, Margaret ^b   Neary, David ^b   Clayton, Stephen ^b   Wright, Kath ^c   Thomson, Hilary ^d   Cummins, Steven ^a   Sowden, Amanda ^c   Renton, Adrian ^e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crime psychology; Environment design; Fear; Qualitative research; Review

Indexed keywords

CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEAR; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRIME; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEAR; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878005591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-496     Document Type: Article

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