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The Spatial Pattern of the Fear of Crime in Lund City among Lund University Students: Mapping with a Web-Based Support System

Li, Jianxiong LU (2019) SGEM08 20191
Department of Human Geography
Abstract
The fear of crime is a negative emotional reaction of people to possible crimes, and there is sometimes a disparity between the actual crime rate and the fear of crime of people. Geographical researchers often combine the sketch map with the fear of crime to analyze the spatial pattern of the fear. The approaches of neogeography can possibly make the surveys with sketch map more effective and allow the people to participate in the research process. A support system for analyzing the fear of crime based on the sketch maps will be developed, the functions, techniques and the components will be concluded from the existing literatures. Then, this system will be used to analyze the spatial pattern of the fear of crime in Lund among Lund... (More)
The fear of crime is a negative emotional reaction of people to possible crimes, and there is sometimes a disparity between the actual crime rate and the fear of crime of people. Geographical researchers often combine the sketch map with the fear of crime to analyze the spatial pattern of the fear. The approaches of neogeography can possibly make the surveys with sketch map more effective and allow the people to participate in the research process. A support system for analyzing the fear of crime based on the sketch maps will be developed, the functions, techniques and the components will be concluded from the existing literatures. Then, this system will be used to analyze the spatial pattern of the fear of crime in Lund among Lund University students and the factors of fear. The spatial disparity of the fear and the actual violent crime spots will also be explored. According to the literatures, the support system should include an online questionnaire with an interactive map, and a GIS analysis process which ensures the data transferability, and several coding and web-mapping techniques were used to fulfill these functions. This study discovered that the most fearful places in Lund to the Lund University students locates in the city center, and some margins of the city are also considered fearful. The reasons include poor lighting, being alone, disorder, media, social network and general fear at night. The spatial distribution of the fear does not correspond to the actual violent crime spots. Further research can be done in the base map readability of the sketch map questionnaires, the effect of the accessibilities or popularities of places on the fear, as well as the regularities behind the fear of crime. (Less)
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author
Li, Jianxiong LU
supervisor
organization
course
SGEM08 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
fear of crime, sketch map, neogeography, Lund, crowdsourcing
language
English
id
8996794
date added to LUP
2019-10-18 14:34:29
date last changed
2020-10-18 03:42:13
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  abstract     = {{The fear of crime is a negative emotional reaction of people to possible crimes, and there is sometimes a disparity between the actual crime rate and the fear of crime of people. Geographical researchers often combine the sketch map with the fear of crime to analyze the spatial pattern of the fear. The approaches of neogeography can possibly make the surveys with sketch map more effective and allow the people to participate in the research process. A support system for analyzing the fear of crime based on the sketch maps will be developed, the functions, techniques and the components will be concluded from the existing literatures. Then, this system will be used to analyze the spatial pattern of the fear of crime in Lund among Lund University students and the factors of fear. The spatial disparity of the fear and the actual violent crime spots will also be explored. According to the literatures, the support system should include an online questionnaire with an interactive map, and a GIS analysis process which ensures the data transferability, and several coding and web-mapping techniques were used to fulfill these functions. This study discovered that the most fearful places in Lund to the Lund University students locates in the city center, and some margins of the city are also considered fearful. The reasons include poor lighting, being alone, disorder, media, social network and general fear at night. The spatial distribution of the fear does not correspond to the actual violent crime spots. Further research can be done in the base map readability of the sketch map questionnaires, the effect of the accessibilities or popularities of places on the fear, as well as the regularities behind the fear of crime.}},
  author       = {{Li, Jianxiong}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Spatial Pattern of the Fear of Crime in Lund City among Lund University Students: Mapping with a Web-Based Support System}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}