This study makes use of a dataset recently collected among young people in Stockholm,
Sweden (N= 1122), to investigate the impact of fear on young people's mobility and …

Strategies that reduce fear of crime may contribute to improved health outcomes; however
interventions require a better understanding of the neighbourhood correlates of both …

Objective To explore the association of changes in perceived safety and police-recorded
crime with changes in transport and leisure walking using longitudinal data from Chicago …

In older adults the relationships between health, fall-related risk factors, perceived
neighborhood walkability, walking behavior and intervention impacts are poorly understood …

Few studies have simultaneously examined the relationship of levels of recorded crime,
perceptions of crime and disorder, and safety from crime with rates of physical activity. We …

Although fear of crime is a topic that has received considerable research interest, less
attention has been paid to the behavioral consequences of fear. Conducting secondary data …

Introduction Studies have shown that perceived security discourages pedestrians from
walking, which in turn reduces physical activities and associated health benefits. However …

The current work considered how concerns for personal safety varied as respondents
viewed two sequences of slides depicting walks down two dangerous urban alleys. It …

According to psychological theories of environmental affect, the physical environment
moderates the walking experience and its psychological wellbeing benefits. The present …

Fear and anxiety about personal security impede walking and the use of public transport,
and the level of fear is different among different social groups. At the same time, transit crime …