The Relationship Between Likelihood and Fear of Criminal Victimization (2006)
Chadee, Derek, Austen, Liz, Ditton, Jason
Crime surveys typically ask respondents how ‘likely’ they think it is that they will become a crime victim in the future. The responses are interpreted here as ‘risk’ statements. An...
People's Perceptions of their Likely Future Risk of Criminal Victimization (2006)
Crime surveys typically ask respondents how likely they think it is that they will be a crime victim in the year after questioning. A three-wave longitudinal panel survey conducted in Trinidad was no...
People's Perceptions of Their Likely Future Risk of Criminal Victimization (2005)
Crime surveys typically ask respondents how likely they think it is that they will be a crime victim in the year after questioning. A three-wave longitudinal panel survey conducted in Trinidad was no...
People's Perceptions of Their Likely Future Risk of Criminal Victimization (2005)
Crime surveys typically ask respondents how likely they think it is that they will be a crime victim in the year after questioning. A three-wave longitudinal panel survey conducted in Trinidad was no...
Ditton, Jason, Chadee, Derek, Farrall, Stephen, Gilchrist, Elizabeth, Bannister, Jon
Although a connection between media reports and dramatizations of crime and peoples' fear of crime is intuitively attractive, an actual relationship has been discovered surprisingly infrequently....
From Imitation to Intimidation (2004)
Ditton, Jason, Chadee, Derek, Farrall, Stephen, Gilchrist, Elizabeth, Bannister, Jon
Although a connection between media reports and dramatizations of crime and peoples’ fear of crime is intuitively attractive, an actual relationship has been discovered surprisingly infrequently....
The Informal Economy: Threat and Opportunity in the City (2003)
Shapland, Joanna, Albrecht, Hans-Jörg, Ditton, Jason, Godefroy, Thierry
The informal economy is a constant, though only partially visible, undercurrent of social and economic life of European cities. Through its more romantic and touristic guises of street trading,...
Are Older People Most Afraid of Crime? Revisiting Ferraro and LaGrange in Trinidad (2003)
This research paper revisits Ferraro and LaGrange's (1992) fear of crime and age study, here using survey data from the Caribbean island of Trinidad but adopting similar methods and statistical...
Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation (2002)
Hammersley, Richard, Khan, Furzana, Ditton, Jason
Estudio sociológico basado en una investigación cualitativa acerca del consumo del éxtasis entre los jóvenes ingleses y su impacto en la salud pública.
Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation / R. Hammersley, F. Khan, J. Ditton. (2002)
Hammersley, Richard, Khan, Furzana, Ditton, Jason
Estudio sociológico basado en una investigación cualitativa acerca del consumo del éxtasis entre los jóvenes ingleses y su impacto en la salud pública.
Preliminary Findings on Seasonality and the Fear of Crime. A Research Note (2002)
Semmens, Natasha, Dillane, Jennifer, Ditton, Jason
An age and gender street quota sample of 576 respondents was interviewed using standard fear of crime questions. An equal number of interviews was conducted at the end of four consecutive seasons,...
Britain has seen very substantial public and private investment in open-street closed circuit television surveillance in the 1990s. Part of the justification for this has been the assumed ability of...
Social Psychology and the Fear of Crime (2000)
Farrall, Stephen, Bannister, Jon, Ditton, Jason, Gilchrist, Elizabeth
Research and theorizing about the fear of crime has, in the main, been dominated by researchers who have relied upon sociological or socio-demographic variables to account for variations in fear...
Reactions to victimisation: why has anger been ignored? (1999)
Ditton, Jason, Farrall, Stephen, Bannister, Jon, Gilchrist, Elisabeth, Pease, Ken
This article has been published in the journal, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal [© Perpetuity Press].
Reactions to victimisation: why has anger been ignored? (1999)
Ditton, Jason, Farrall, Stephen, Bannister, Jon, Gilchrist, Elisabeth, Pease, Ken
This article has been published in the journal, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal [© Perpetuity Press].
WOMEN AND THE 'FEAR OF CRIME': Challenging the Accepted Stereotype (1998)
GILCHRIST, ELIZABETH, BANNISTER, JON, DITTON, JASON, FARRALL, STEPHEN
Professional empirically generated survey data about the fear of crime persistently indicate relatively small but statistically significant differences between fear rates expressed by men and women....
SEEN AND NOW HEARD: Talking to the Targets of Open Street CCTV (1998)
The presence of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) in town and city centres, mostly with Home Office or Scottish Office support, has grown enormously in the past few years. Analysis of their...
FARRALL, STEPHEN, BANNISTER, JON, DITTON, JASON, GILCHRIST, ELIZABETH
Research upon the fear of crime has grown substantially in recent years. From its very inception, this field has relied almost exclusively upon quantitative surveys, which have suggested that the...
MORE SINNED AGAINST THAN SINNING: A Study of Young Teenagers' Experience of Crime (1995)
HARTLESS, JULIE M., DITTON, JASON, NAIR, GWYNETH, PHILLIPS, SAMUEL
Crime surveys have recently become commonplace in Britain. However, they tend to be based on interviewer administered questionnaires conducted with adults in their domiciles. Further, they neglect,...
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND THE FEAR OF CRIME: The Sad Case of the 'Pond' Area in Glasgow (1993)
NAIR, GWYNETH, DITTON, JASON, PHILLIPS, SAMUEL
Studies investigating the positive effect that improved street lighting has on crime and the fear of crime have become remarkably popular. Impressive results have regularly been reported. However,...
Controlology : beyond the new criminology / Jason Ditton (1979)
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