Relationship between variables about fear of crime

Abstract

In the specialised literature, fear of crime is a set of subjective emotional experiences before a situation of danger, which may or may not be real, together with feelings of personal vulnerability and insecurity with respect to society. This process is based on physiological and cognitive factors activating cerebral mechanisms depending on the person and their personal circumstances. Faced with such a situation, the person perceives, evaluates and generates reactions and responses of care, alarm and general protection. The neural networks participate in this speciic situation and cognitive neuroscience studies, explains and provides data contributing to full comprehension of the fear of crime, which not only lies in having been a victim but also in the possibility of being one or continuing to be one repeatedly. Such an understanding makes it easier for people to adapt to the situation of fear or danger and assimilate their fear of crime.