Talk:Fear of crime

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[edit] Bias?

This article appears biased to me. Like it's trying to say that being fearful of crime is an unreasonable thing. This sentence for example: "Although the evidence details the myths surrounding elderly victimisation, the elderly still have a fear of crime problem." The elderly have a fear of crime problem? How can it be sure that the rest of society simply doesn't care enough, for example? Similar to voter turnout demographics. Peoplesunionpro 21:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Agree

I agree and have added a different, more theoretical approach (cognitive, behaviour, etc). About the elderly: recent research (Dutch) shows that the supposed victim-fear paradox disappears when looking closely and carefully at different agegroups. The young are actually most likely to become a victim of crime and they also have the highest fear of crime. No paradox there. I'll write a little more about that later. The role of the media is unclear. Does anyone have something on that? 82.150.129.225 09:57, 31 October 2007 (UTC)