Fear of crime

Criminology
Main Theories
Conflict theory Criminalization Differential association Integrative criminology Rational choice theory Structural functionalism Subcultural theory Symbolic interactionism Victimisation
Methods
Comparative Crime statistics Cold case Dark figure Dog whistle Fear of crime Women's Under-reporting Unsolved deaths Profiling Ethnography Uniform Crime Reports Crime harm index Crime mapping Positivist school Qualitative Quantitative BJS NIBRS Recidivism
Subfields and other major theories
American Anthropological Biosocial criminology Conflict Criminology Critical Culture Cyber Demography Development Environmental Experimental Organizational Political Psychology Public Radical criminology
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Fear of crime refers to the fear of being a victim of crime, which is not necessarily reflective of the actual probability of being such a victim.^[1]