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Does context matter?: Older adults’ safety perceptions of neighborhood environments in Sweden
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Urban Studies (US).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9927-0323
KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
2020 (English)In: Crime and fear in public places: Towards safe, inclusive and sustainable cities / [ed] Vania Ceccato & Mahesh K. Nalla, New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 250-264Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter draws on two case studies on safety perceptions among older adults living in different cities in Sweden: Stockholm and Malmö. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study. Results show that older adults express signs of behavioral responses as a result of fear of crime and/or poor safety perceptions regardless of study areas and city contexts, such as distance decay strategy, and time avoidance. Findings also call for a more comprehensive discussion about the role that context (in this case, social and geographical) plays for everyday mobility and perceived safety in later life.

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New York: Routledge, 2020. p. 250-264
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Routledge Studies in Crime and Society, ISSN 2643-9131
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mobility, older people, context, fear of crime
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18261DOI: 10.4324/9780429352775-17ISBN: 978-0-367-37128-9 (print)ISBN: 978-0-367-51769-4 (print)ISBN: 978-0-429-35277-5 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-18261DiVA, id: diva2:1467917
Available from: 2020-09-16 Created: 2020-09-16 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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