Feeling of Insecurity and Fear of Crime

Fear feeling of crime is a prevalent issue and one of the contemporary society problems. Numerous factors such as gender, age, any past experiences with crime, where one lives have an impact on fear levels and get it aggravate. The fear of crime is completely natural if it is at a fair level of the probability of victimization. If it makes citizens enact appropriate acts to prevent crimes, it will have an important protective role. But if this feeling takes an excessive shape, it will have widespread social and individual impacts such as being passive and reducing social interaction, reduction of public reliability and enhancement of economic costs. This paper has studied this phenomenon and factors affect it and also examined the individual and social impacts and methods to reduce the fear feeling of being a crime victim.