kossda-korea social science data archive

Principal Investigator(s)

Kim, Seong-Eon / Korean Institute of Criminology

Producer(s)

Korean Institute of Criminology

Abstract

Although continuous criticism arises that due to the insufficiency of public security in assuaging the fear of crime victimization in everyday life the use of private security services are on the rise, empirical studies on the subject are nonexistent. The「Survey on Crime Awareness and the Use of Private Security Services」was conducted to investigate the state of the rapidly growing private security services in Korea and to build a preliminary database useful for the establishment of policy measures to reduce the fear of crime.
The survey was conducted among small business owners with less than 20 employees and average citizens, and this survey is of average citizens. The questionnaire includes contents on, level of danger in surrounding area, fear of crime victimization, level of exposure to crime victimization, ability to cope with crime, crime prevention measures at business site, experience of crime prevention activities, damage to business caused by crime, contents on sales activities, surrounding environment of business site, and topics related to security services.

Keywords

fear of crime crime victim crime injury crime crime prevention police activities police theft security services risk safety security living environment neighborhood environment alarm embezzlement

Subjects

Crime/ Safety

Citation

Kim, Seong-Eon. Survey on Crime Awareness and the Use of Private Security Services, 2002 : Citizens [Dataset]. Korean Institute of Criminology [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2007-10-29, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-A1-2002-0030-V1.0.

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