Spatial Dimensions of Fear in a High-Crime Community: Fear of Crime or Fear of Disorder?

This article presents findings from a two-year study of fear of crime and victimization in a high-crime, inner-city neighbourhood ill Winnipeg, Manitoba. Face-to-face interviews were carried out in 2007 With a sample of 394 neighbourhood residents. Respondents provided qualitative, quantitative, and spatial data oil levels of fear, patterns of victimization, and experience with neighbourhood disorder. Despite high levels of criminal victimization and worry about crime, neighbourhood residents cited concerns With disorder rather than crime as determinate of locations of highest fear in the community. Spatial and qualitative measures of fear in this neighbourhood suggest support for the link between disorder and fear of crime even in high-crime communities.