Women’s perspectives on Fear of crime in urban public spaces (Case of study: women in Babol)

Subject Areas : Urban Sociological Studies

Alireza Barari ¹ , Ali Asghar Abbasi Asfajir ² , ali rahmani firuozjah ³

1 - Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
2 - Corresponding author, Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
3 - Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran

Received: 2021-10-31 Accepted : 2021-10-31 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Women, public space, social distance, Fear of crime, the use of mass media,

Abstract :

Fear is one of the most familiar issues that every person instinctively experiences in many ways from birth to death. The purpose of this study was to study fear of crime in public spaces from the perspectives of women in the city of Babol in 1398. This research was conducted using a survey method and a uestionnaire. The research population consisted of women aged 18 to 60 living in Babol of which,  using Cochran's formula, 350 people were selected as the sample using a multi-stage cluster sampling method. To analyze the research data, correlation coefficient tests with spss24 software and confirmatory factor analysis of the second stage with Amos25 software were used. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated and evaluated using Cronbach's alpha method, based on which the coefficient of research variables and its dimensions was more than 0.7. In this study, by using inferential statistics, the relationship between  the variables social distance, the use of mass media, informal control, disorder and  fear of crime were examined and the relationships were significant. 

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