A socio-ecological exploration of fear of crime in urban green spaces –A systematic review (original) (raw)

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

Abstract

Studies have pointed at the negative side of urban green spaces in terms of evoking fear of crime. Howeverresearch on fear-provoking attributes suggests that there usually is no single attribute that influencesfear but that rather a combination of attributes prevails. The aim of the paper is to systematically reviewthose attributes that evoke fear of crime in urban green spaces and to highlight their complex interactionby adopting a social-ecological framework. Results include an overview of the reviewed literature withregard to authorship, journal, geographical distribution of the studies, types of urban green spaces stud-ies, types of landscape stimulus used, applied methods, types of respondents involved and main studyfindings. Forty-eight studies met the authors’ inclusion criteria. The majority of the studies highlightedthat individual factors (such as gender and past experience) were more influential than social and phys-ical factors in evoking fear of crime. A proposed socio-...

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