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Fear Of Crime And Perceptions Of Law Enforcement Among American Youth, Bruce K. Bayley
Fear Of Crime And Perceptions Of Law Enforcement Among American Youth, Bruce K. Bayley
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Fear of crime and the public's satisfaction with police has been a focus of criminologists for a number of years. Most studies, however, have focused on the general population as a whole. What is not known is how fearful American youth are of the crime in their neighborhoods and how they perceive those in law enforcement. The purpose of this study was to explore this subgroup of the population and to begin the investigation of youths' fear of crime and their perceptions of law enforcement.
Using a national sample of 1,897 youth ages 16-25 collected from 12 cities throughout the …