What is it about?
In this paper we introduce a new thematic crime victimisation questionnaire, designed with the specific objective of operationalizing a core group of indicators that allow for analysing whether individual factors (gender, age, nationality, income, lifestyle and the degree of social inclusion) and situational factors (socio-economic features of neighbourhoods, urban layout and the degree of social cohesion) might influence perceptions of insecurity.
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Why is it important?
Our results show that multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholders panels of experts are a way to enrich current practices in designing survey-based measurement of perceptions of insecurity and to provide new insights into relatively underexplored topics, such as the influence of socio-economic and socio-geographic factors on perceptions and the impact that the fear of crime and feelings of insecurity have on peoples’ lives.
Perspectives
The phase of design of a survey is key to ensure the robustness and validity of a questionnaire. This paper allows interested parties to replicate our methodology in the view of developing survey-based measures that could help identifying the causal factors that influence the variation in the perception of insecurity in contemporary urban societies.
Riccardo Valente
Universidad de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Participatory design of a thematic questionnaire in the field of victimization studies, European Journal of Criminology, April 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1477370818769597.
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