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Crime prevention participation:An exploratory analysis

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Most past research on crime and crime prevention has focused on their occurrence in urban settings. Relatively little attention has been given to crime and citizen crime prevention in small town/rural areas. The present study uses secondary data from the National Crime Survey: Victim Risk Supplement, 1983 to investigate citizen participation in five crime prevention domains within large urban areas and small town/rural areas. The results suggest that, while there are some similarities in citizen participation, various factors have different degrees of impact in different locations. Further, differences in crime prevention participation are more a function of the type of crime prevention than of the size of the local population.

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Lab, S.P., Stanich, T.J. Crime prevention participation:An exploratory analysis. AJCJ 18, 1–23 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02887636

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