英文摘要 |
Fear of crime refers to a broad status of psychologically feeling insecure towards public security and the possibility of personal victimization. Fear of crime has long been of serious concern while carrying out the research on criminology.The measurements of fear of crime mostlydepend on self-reported items.However, the limitations imposed by self-report measurements often lead tohighly questionable validity.In this paper, the authors referred to the “method of constructing a virtual street space”proposed by Harada (2009, 2010) for designing an experiment concerning the “construction of virtual street space”.A total of 61 university students(31 males and 30 females) from the Department of Criminology of National Chung Cheng University were invited to be the samples to assist with the experiment. The items included in this experiment were the fifteen physical spaces easily found around thosestudents in their daily lives.Meanwhile, an analysis was made on the students’ psychological perception of each of the above mentioned physical spaces. The findings showed that “police stations” were the safest and the most secure place perceived by theparticipants of the experiment; “convenience stores” were the most convenient and necessary place perceived by them; and their most favorite physical space was “convenience stores”.Contrarily, ruins, wasteland overgrown with weeds and mass graves scored the lowest average based on the aspects of perception covered in this study.In other words, the participants were inclined to place the physical spaces with better feelings such as convenience, safety, security, necessity and fondness nearby their residence.On the other hand, they tended to place the physical spaces with negative feelings far from their residence and on the other side of the railroad which symbolizes an absolute physical barrier.While commuting between their “residence” and “the train station”, the participants were more likely to have physical spaces with convenience around them. Finally, it is found that the participants presented better response towards police stations in terms of the “function to protect residence”. |