Slachtofferschap en onveiligheidsbeleving van adolescenten op het openbaar vervoer: een verkennend onderzoek naar de intermediaire rol van slachtofferschap, routineactiviteiten en levensstijlen

Abstract:Victimization and adolescents’ feelings of insecurity in public transport. An exploratory study of the role of routine activities and lifestyles. Victimisation and fear of crime have increasingly gained attention in criminological inquiries and in policy. More recently studies pay attention to feelings of unsafety with regard to public transport. However, young adolescents are often less studied. Therefore the present study aims at filling that gap by studying the prevalence of feelings of unsafety on public transport of young adolescents andby studying the correlates of feelings of unsafety on public transport. Attention is paid to a cognitive, emotional and behavioural dimension, as is done in most studies of fear of crime. The study departs from the integrated routine-activity / lifestyle theory as framework. The results indicate that exposure to offenders on public transport routes has no effect on feelings of unsafety, attractiveness of the target has a significant effect on feelings of unsafety, while the effects of lifestyles is fully mediated by repeat victimisation on public transport. Repeat victimisation has the strongest direct effect on the three dimensions of feelings of unsafety.

Publication year:2012

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