Building public will for climate action requires designing messages for different audiences.
Previous studies that identified groups based on similar beliefs, behavior, and political …

Despite the increasing prevalence of cybercrime and its study by criminologists, very little
research has examined the extent, nature, and impact of fear of cybercrime. In this study, we …

In this chapter we consider the idea that legitimacy judgments involve two connected beliefs.
The first relates to consent and authorization: do people believe that an authority has the …

This article presents the quantitative findings from a mixed-method study of perceptions of
crime in inner Sydney. A survey was deployed via Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview …

Incarcerated populations across the world have been found to be consistently and
significantly more vulnerable to problem gambling than general populations in the same …

Stranger violence can have a variety of different physical, psychological, social, and
economic effects on the victim. In this article, we address one possible impact, namely, a …

Worry about crime is known to be higher in some European regions than others. However,
cross-national surveys, which are the main source of information to map worry about crime …

In this chapter we discuss (a) some of the ways by which theory guides measurement and
(b) some of the differences between reflective and formative approaches to measurement …

Worry about crime has been linked to several detrimental outcomes including worse mental
health. However, there has been little research on the association between worry about …

Conservative forces in Spain are depicting mobilised young people as an unruly youth; a
threat to the security of the Spanish state. In this way, narratives based on stimulating panic …