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posted on 2006-02-22, 17:36 authored by Paul Wiles, Jon Simmons, Ken PeaseThe criminal justice contexts are identified in which understanding and communicating
risks are important. The paper is thereafter exclusively concerned with the probability
of crime victimization classified by person and location. Examples of crime risks derived from
the British Crime Survey are provided, with instances of where concern about crime diverges
from risks of crime. Caution is advocated about seeking to reduce the fear of crime by reassurance.
The high levels of concentration of crime by location are noted, together with the fact
that particular individuals and households are repeatedly victimized, enabling the prioritization
of crime-reductive resources after a crime has taken place. The paper concludes that an emphasis
on how the supply of criminal opportunities may be regulated heralds a more systematic
approach to the distribution of unavoidable hazard among citizens.
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School
- Social Sciences
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- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Research Unit
- Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice
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WILES, P., SIMMONS, J. and PEASE, K., 2003. Crime victimization: its extent and communication. Journal of the Royal Statistical Association, 166(2), pp.247-252Publication date
2003Language
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