СТРАХ ОД КРИМИНАЛА, РОДНЕ РАЗЛИКЕ У ПЕРЦЕПЦИЈИ РИЗИКА
FEAR OF CRIME, GENDER DIFFERENCES IN RISK PERCEPTION

Summary/Abstract: One of the most consistent findings of the research into the phenomenon of fear of crime is that women express a higher degree of fear in comparison to men. The concept of vulnerability also designates gender as one of the most significant and stable predictors of fear of crime. Taking this as a starting point, a study was conducted in order to examine gender differences in fear of crime and test the theoretical claim that risk perception and the behavioural response to fear of crime are gender-differentiated and related to the level of fear. The analysis was based on the data obtained in the course of the regional research project “Fear of Crime in Large Cities”. Using a specially designed questionnaire, the method of inhome interview was applied on a multistage random sample of 1959 adult respondents living in urban parts of the cities of former Yugoslav republics (Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Skopje). By choosing the appropriate questionnaire items, three scales for the measurement of fear of crime, the perception of victimization risk, and the behavioral response to the possibility of criminal victimization were produced for the purposes of this paper.

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