Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey Data
This paper examines new measures of fear of crime fielded in the European Social Survey. We use an analytical approach that combines statistical latent class modelling with pragmatic choices for the final classification of the responses into a six-category measure. We undertake an informal examinati...
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| description | This paper examines new measures of fear of crime fielded in the European Social Survey. We use an analytical approach that combines statistical latent class modelling with pragmatic choices for the final classification of the responses into a six-category measure. We undertake an informal examination of the latent class solution in individual countries, and we show that frequency and impact indicators are reliable cross-national indicators (with configural or construct validity) of the experience of negative emotions about crime in people’s lives. Our subsequent estimation of levels of worry in 23 European countries sheds important light on the psychological patterning of worry about crime across Europe. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e0cd427d721d42b09518f4371e83e5192022-12-22T04:02:32ZengEuropean Survey Research AssociationSurvey Research Methods1864-33612014-08-018210.18148/srm/2014.v8i2.54575457Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey DataJonathan Jackson0Jouni Kuha1London School of EconomicsLondon School of EconomicsThis paper examines new measures of fear of crime fielded in the European Social Survey. We use an analytical approach that combines statistical latent class modelling with pragmatic choices for the final classification of the responses into a six-category measure. We undertake an informal examination of the latent class solution in individual countries, and we show that frequency and impact indicators are reliable cross-national indicators (with configural or construct validity) of the experience of negative emotions about crime in people’s lives. Our subsequent estimation of levels of worry in 23 European countries sheds important light on the psychological patterning of worry about crime across Europe.https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/5457fear of crimesocial-indicatorscross-national researchsurvey designemotions |
| spellingShingle | Jonathan Jackson Jouni Kuha Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey Data Survey Research Methods fear of crime social-indicators cross-national research survey design emotions |
| title | Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey Data |
| title_full | Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey Data |
| title_fullStr | Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey Data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey Data |
| title_short | Worry about Crime among European Citizens: Model-Assisted Measurement using European Social Survey Data |
| title_sort | worry about crime among european citizens model assisted measurement using european social survey data |
| topic | fear of crime social-indicators cross-national research survey design emotions |
| url | https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/5457 |
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