Urban Policing and the Fear of Crime
The interplay between policing strategies and the fear of crime in urban areas has only recently garnered the attention it warrants. There are two main reasons for this. The  rst revolves around the relatively ambiguous or undeveloped exploration of the linkage between crime and the fear of crime. The second reason hinges on the  rst: amorphous knowledge of the crime–fear of crime nexus has compelled police agencies, until fairly recently, to target speci c crimes and only generally to address fear of crime. This paper focuses on the relationships between various policing strategies and fear of crime in urban areas. How does fear of crime affect policing and do policing strategies deliberately and/or unwittingly impact on residents’ fear of crime?
WHO FEARS CRIME? PERCEPTIONS OF PUBLIC SECURITY AND ATTITUDES TO MIGRANTS AMONG CHINA'S URBAN POPULATION
Most extant research in the economics of crime literature has focused on explaining variations in crime rates. Public action to prevent crime, however, is often dependent on the level of concern about public security that is expressed in public perceptions surveys. The economics of crime literature has largely overlooked responses to such surveys as data sources and therefore it has not accounted for the role that public opinion might have in mobilizing public action against crime. We use a unique survey administered in 2003 in 32 Chinese cities to examine the determinants of perceptions of public security among China’s urban population. In particular, we investigate the hypothesis that urbanites’ attitudes to migrants influence their perceptions of public security. We find that individuals who have a negative perception of migrants also have a poor perception of public security. We also find that the unemployment rate, the masculinity ratio and expenditure on armed police in the city in which the individual resides, whether the individual lives in the coastal region as opposed to the central or western region and average changes in housing prices and average changes in rental prices in the city in which the individual lives are important predictors of perceptions of public security.
Facilitating Spiritual Care in the Rehabilitation Setting
&NA; Nurses, who traditionally have espoused a holistic approach to patient care, are in a unique position to attend to clients’ spiritual needs. The assessment, planning, and provision of spiritual care is particularly important in the rehabilitation setting. Research attention needs to be directed at gaps in the current state of knowledge and practice of spiritual care to meet the needs of rehabilitation clients.