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Income inequality and fear of crime across the European region

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Date
01/03/2017
Author
Vauclair, Christin-Melanie
Bratanova, Boyka
Keywords
Cross-national comparisons
European Social Survey
Fear of crime
Income inequality
Multilevel analyses
Subjective well-being
HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
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Abstract
This paper aims to take a holistic approach on studying fear of crime by testing predictors at multiple levels of analyses. Data from the European Social Survey (N = 56,752 from 29 countries) were used to test and extend the Income Inequality and Sense of Vulnerability Hypotheses. The findings confirm that (1) individuals in societies with greater income inequalities are more fearful of crime, and (2) older or disabled people as well as women report greater fear of crime. Contrary to the hypotheses, ethnic majority and not ethnic minority members report greater fear of crime, if they reside in high income inequality countries. It is further demonstrated that fear of crime explains the inverse association between income inequality and subjective well-being in this particular subsample.
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Vauclair , C-M & Bratanova , B 2017 , ' Income inequality and fear of crime across the European region ' , European Journal of Criminology , vol. 14 , no. 2 , pp. 221-241 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370816648993
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European Journal of Criminology
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370816648993
ISSN
1477-3708
Type
Journal article
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(c) The authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Funding for this study was provided by a Marie Curie Fellowship (PIRG08-GA-2010-276809) to the first author.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8857

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