Fear of Crime and the Guardian Angels - Attitudes of New York City Subway Riders, 1984

• NCJ Number: 103941
• Author(s): D J Kenney
• Date Published: 1986
• Length: 23 pages
• Corporate Author: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Following a brief description of the 1984 survey of the attitudes of New York City subway riders toward subway crime and Guardian Angels' efforts to prevent it, this manual presents survey codebooks and the questionnaire.

Abstract

The data pertain to the potential effectiveness of the Guardian Angels (a juvenile crime prevention group) in their efforts to combat fear and crime in the New York City subways. Respondents were asked about their perceived fear of crime while riding the subways, the likelihood of their becoming crime victims, their opinions about the crime problem on the subways, and their knowledge and observations of the Guardian Angels. The codebook correlates 49 variables with questionnaire answers. Another codebook organizes data on the persons and circumstances involved in refusals to answer survey questions. The structured questionnaire contains 14 questions.