Abstract

GARCIA-CASTRO, Juan Diego  and  BARRANTES UMANA, Beatriz. Perception and fear of crime: a review of articles in spanish 2004-2014. Reflexiones [online]. 2016, vol.95, n.1, pp.87-100. ISSN 1659-2859.

This is a literature review of social psychology scientific articles, in Spanish, on perception and fear of crime that were published from 2004 to 2014 on Redalyc, Dialnet, Scielo and Google Scholar databases. Fifty-two articles were found and they were grouped by content analysis into five categories: critical perspectives, fear of crime, measurement of crime, perceptions of crime, and mass media. Results indicated that research has been characterized by critical and descriptive perspectives. The discussion section highlights the need to pay greater attention to the measurements and the impact of fear of crime as well as differentiating, conceptually and methodologically, the perception of fear. In addition, studying quasi-experimental designs that test interventions to reduce fear and benefit the mental health of inhabitants is needed.

Keywords : Criminality; Perception; Fear; Social Psychology and Literature Review.

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