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Nicklas Guldåker

Senior Lecturer

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Fear of crime, crime and living conditions – a case study of Uppsala, Sweden

Author

  • Nicklas Guldåker
  • Karl Kronkvist
  • Olof Gustavsson
  • Viktor Persson
  • Jennie Lindbergh
  • Thomas Niedomysl

Summary, in English

This study adds to knowledge on place-based fear of crime. First, by proposing a method to coordinate and code unsafe locations from an open-ended question in a random sample survey among residents of Uppsala, Sweden. The method is performed through an automated script in R with manual work steps. Second, by identifying types of functional locations, e.g. traffic centres, city parks, green spaces etc., reported by residents as unsafe. Third, by examining whether these unsafe locations spatially cluster. Fourth, by examining whether unsafe locations or clusters of unsafe locations also tend to overlap with hotspots of crime. Fifth, by examining to what extent living conditions are related to the occurrence of unsafe locations and their potential spatial clustering.

Department/s

  • Department of Human Geography

Publishing year

2024-01-25

Language

English

Pages

1-23

Publication/Series

Nordic Journal of Criminology

Volume

25

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Scandinavian University Press

Topic

  • Human Geography
  • Social and Economic Geography

Keywords

  • fear of crime
  • unsafe location
  • crime
  • spatial cluster
  • living conditions
  • Uppsala
  • Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • Strategic GIS-based maps for collaboration and decisions on measures to counter to counteract organized crime, social unrest, antagonistic threats and events of significance to the total defense
  • Developed crisis preparedness to lead, communicate and coordinate place-based measures against system-threatening crime
  • The geography of fear - Where and when do we experience fear and how can it be understood?

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2578-983X