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@inproceedings{Meko2008PoliceEI, title={Police Efforts in the Reduction of fear of Crime in Local Communities – Big Expectations and Questionable Effects}, author={Gorazd Me{\vs}ko and Marte Fallshore and Mojca Rep and Aletha Huisman}, year={2008}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:54785692}}- Gorazd Meško, Marte Fallshore, Aletha Huisman
- Published 2008
- Sociology, Political Science
Making police officers approachable and visible is one of the most important factors in reducing fear of crime. However, the public also requires their effectiveness in crime fighting. Community policing relies on factors such as approachability and visibility of the police, but does not offer solutions for factors like neighbourhood decay. The role of police in the reduction of fear of crime is quite paradoxical – on the one hand their presence in neighbourhoods reassure citizens, while on the…
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American Journal of Criminal Justice
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- S. OlajideM. Diah
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Sociology, Business
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Sociology, Law
The conference proceedings present peer reviewed papers presented at the third national conference on local safety and security in Slovenia in November 2017, proposing solutions for more efficient assurance of safety/security in local communities.
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Sociology
The aim of this article is to establish whether there are unique neighbourhood level variations in worry about criminal victimization, independent of neighbourhood composition. An additional purpose…
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- 2012
Sociology, Law
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