List of fear of crime questions.

Fear of crime has been rising persistently in Chile, even in periods where actual crime rates have decreased, making the perception of crime an important policy issue. This paper presents the results of the impact evaluation of a pilot public policy designed to reduce fear of crime around a shopping centre in Santiago, Chile. The pilot policy consisted of installing a team including police officers and local government officials that handed out information leaflets and talked to passers-by about crime prevention. Pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys were conducted in the shopping centre where the programme was implemented and in a control shopping centre nearby to identify the causal effects of the policy using a difference-in-differences empirical strategy. The results indicate that the programme was effective in reducing fear of crime around the shopping centre, especially at night among its workers, and that it reduced actual crime. However, a deeper analysis suggests that the programme might have actually increased fear of crime among the individuals who directly interacted with the programme. The reduction in crime might have indirectly resulted in an overall reduction in fear among workers, who are likely to be up to date on criminal occurrences in the area, explaining how an increase in fear in those directly contacted is consistent with an overall reduction in fear across workers.

智利的犯罪恐惧情绪持续攀升，即便在实际犯罪率下降的时期亦是如此，这使得犯罪感知成为一项重要的政策议题。本研究呈现了一项试点公共政策的影响评估结果，该政策旨在缓解智利圣地亚哥某购物中心周边的犯罪恐惧情绪。该试点政策组建了一支由警员与地方政府官员组成的工作小组，向过往行人发放犯罪预防宣传手册并开展相关宣讲。研究在实施该政策的购物中心及附近的对照购物中心开展了干预前后的调研，并采用双重差分（difference-in-differences）实证策略识别该政策的因果效应。评估结果显示，该政策可有效降低购物中心周边的犯罪恐惧情绪，尤其在夜间对在岗工作人员效果显著，同时还切实降低了该区域的实际犯罪率。不过，进一步分析表明，该政策或会提升直接接触该项目的人群的犯罪恐惧情绪。由于在岗工作人员往往及时掌握该区域的犯罪动态，犯罪率的下降或间接促成了工作人员整体犯罪恐惧情绪的缓解，这也解释了为何直接接触项目的人群恐惧情绪上升，却与工作人员整体恐惧情绪下降的结果并不矛盾。