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Fear of Crime And Attitudes Towards Crime. Comparative Criminological Reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Hans-Jurgen Kerner
Hans-Jurgen Kerner*
Affiliation:
Institute of Juvenile Law and Youth Welfare, University of Hamburg - Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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The fear of becoming victimized, particularly to become the victim of crimes of violence, seems to be widespread all over the industrial nations of the Western world today. According to the official data an increase of the particularly relevant offenses and crimes can be observed everywhere. The increase differs to some extent from nation to nation, only in Japan the trend is out of line, if reports about the past years can be considered to be true. In spite of the increase at present there is no answer to the question, whether the « objective security » or the « real state of security » has become decisively worse for most citizens (outside specific areas, where crime is likely to occur) compared to former decades.

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III. — Comparative Analysis of the Criminal Justice Systems
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 17 , Issue 1-2 , 1978 , pp. 83 - 99
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Copyright © 1978 International Society for Criminology

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Footnotes

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I am obliged to Michael Alex for valuable help in preparing and discussing the material.

This research was supported by a grant from the Bundeskriminalmt.

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