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by Marilyn McShane and Frank P. Williams III, Prairie View A & M University |
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Fear of Crime Among Inner-City African Americans | |
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Yolanda M. Scott |
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African Americans' fear of crime grows with their sense of community disorder and fear of the police. African Americans are under-represented in previous studies of fear of crime, and consequently the popular beliefs about their fear of crime are difficult to substantiate. Scott addresses this issue by using a systemic social-control approach to explain inner-city African Americans' fear of crime from their perspective. Perceptions of neighborhood disorder (intra-community control) and views of local police (extra-community control) were used to predict fear of local violent and property crime. Perceived crime-risk was used as a mediating factor between these fears and the two systemic factors. The systemic argument, in contradiction to recent work, was supported: perceived local disorder and negative views of police increased residents' fear of crime. Central to any reduction in inner-city African Americans' fear of crime is their perception that there be strong intra- and extra-community control barriers between themselves and crime. Table of Contents
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Yolanda M. Scott is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Kentucky. | ||
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2001. xiv,
168 pages. |
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