Abstract
ABSTRACT Fear of crime is one of many quality of life issues that community crime prevention strategies have attempted to identify and address. Little is known, however, about the perceptions of fear of criminal victimization among citizens who volunteer in community crime prevention programs. This study assesses fear of violent crime and property crime victimization among 192 police volunteers and 421 general citizens, controlling for known correlates of fear of crime in the comparison. Multivariate regression analyses show that police volunteers fear violent crime victimization substantially more than general citizens. Likewise, police volunteers fear property victimization more than general citizens, however, the effect on fear of violent crime was markedly more robust than for property crime. The findings drawn from this study lend support to Pepinski's (1989) cautions concerning community crime prevention programs. Directions for future research are discussed.
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