Safety Perceptions in Rural Areas (original) (raw)

What factors are linked to people feeling safein their local area

2020

This report outlines some factors linked to adults feeling safe in different situations in their local area, based on results from the National Survey for Wales. The National Survey asks about people’s experience of safety based on four individual factors: feeling safe at home, walking, travelling by car, and travelling by public transport. This report is based on National Survey interviews carried out in 2018-19. It provides an update of previous analysis based on the 2013-14 results.

Bridging Levels of Analysis In Risk Perception Research: the Case of the Fear of Crime

Forum Qualitative …, 2006

This paper offers a theoretical treatise that bridges the social and the psychological in risk perception research. We first outline research into the psychology of risk. We then speculate on the idea that people develop a structured narrative to risk, which includes morality, trust, and the dense social meaning of a danger and its impact. From this vantage point, we are better placed to move from psychological analyses of risk perception to the sort of analysis of culture that Mary DOUGLAS provides. Throughout the article we lean on crime as an example.

Perception of the Safety of a Place by the Urban and Rural Population in Slovenia

Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo, 2021

Statistics on the incidence of crime in rural and urban areas around the world do not present a consistent picture and reveal the problem of the dark figure of crime, which raises at least two questions: 1) whether there is indeed a difference between urban and rural areas in the incidence and prevalence of crime; and, if so, 2) what characteristics of these places are believed to influence the incidence of crime. The aim of this article is to answer these two questions by examining people’s beliefs (social constructs) theoretically and empirically using Slovenia as an example. The data used for this purpose are based on 60 structured interviews with urban and rural residents of both genders, aged 18 years and older, conducted throughout Slovenia in the winter of 2016–2017. The results point to the presence of strong myths about crime as a phenomenon of (larger) cities in Slovenia, and at the same time to the perceived lower quality of life in rural areas compared to cities. The idealised image of a safe countryside held by inhabitants of both rural and urban areas is confirmed by the well-known construction of the countryside as the “other” that supports the social hegemony of cities over the countryside in the accumulation of its space, human and natural resources. The paper concludes that the issue of inadequate reporting on crime in the context of rural and urban places needs further research and suggests that the influence of the media on the production and reporting of images of crime in specific places should be examined in more detail.