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| Tables | ix | |
| Figures | xi | |
| Acknowledgements | xiii | |
| Introduction: Understanding African Americans' Fear of Victimization | 1 | |
| 1. | The Role of Perceived Systemic Control | 5 |
| Systemic Social Disorganization Theory | 13 | |
| 2. | Examining the Fear of Victimization Literature | 29 |
| Conceptual Dilemmas in the Study of Fear | 30 | |
| The Problem of Specification | 33 | |
| Measurement Issues | 35 | |
| Sampling Issues | 43 | |
| Disorder and Fear of Victimization | 45 | |
| Perceived Crime-Risk and Fear of Victimization | 49 | |
| Local Police, Perceived Crime-Risk, and Fear of Victimization | 53 | |
| Socio-Demographic Characteristics, Perceived Crime-Risk, and Fear of Victimization | 61 | |
| 3. | Modeling African Americans' Fear of Victimization | 65 |
| The Models | 65 | |
| Hypotheses | 68 | |
| The Study | 74 | |
| The Data | 74 | |
| A Brief Description of the City, Neighborhoods, and Sample | 77 | |
| Operationalization of Variables | 80 | |
| 4. | Results | 93 |
| Zero-Ordered Correlations Among All Model Variables | 93 | |
| Multivariate Results | 101 | |
| Perceived Crime-Risk | 101 | |
| Fear of Personal Crime | 104 | |
| Fear of Property Crime | 108 | |
| 5. | Discussion, Conclusions, and Social Policy Implications | 113 |
| Synopsis | 113 | |
| Discussion of Results | 114 | |
| Linkages between Disorder, Perceived Crime-Risk, and Offense Specific Fears | 114 | |
| Linkages between Perceived Local Police Unprofessionalism, Perceived Crime-Risk, and Offense-Specific Fears | 118 | |
| The Effects of Socio-Demographic Characteristics on Perceived Crime-Risk, and Offense-Specific Fears | 121 | |
| Appendices | ||
| A. | Wording of All Model Variables | 131 |
| B. | Missing Values Analysis (MVA) | 135 |
| C. | Scale Construction | 145 |
| D. | Investigating Home Invasion: Factor Analysis of Offense-Specific Fears | 149 |
| References | 153 | |
| Index | 163 |
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