grrrrrrrrrr help - stupid essay

top_drawer_2

grrrrrrrrrrr.... I have stupid seen essays to write and this one is really p!ssing me off. The question is:

Critically evaluate the research that supports a gender and age interaction in fear, and perceptions of risk, of crime.

I can't even seem to find this so called research which mentions this interaction ...............

Jenny

Gingernutmeg

Might be completely off the mark here but wouldn't you just need to find some research which shows that there tends to be a correlation between age and sex and the fear of crime - there's loads of this about if you look. I just googled 'elderly fear of crime' and it brought some stuff up from Age Concern and the Home Office which would be a good starting point, and then googling 'women fear of crime' brought up some interesting stuff too - this article might be helpful (although I'm posting this with disclaimer that I found this through a couple of minutes googling and so its academic integrity might not be brilliant).

MrsManda

Search the Office of National Statistics website for fear of crime. There's been loads of surveys and analysis about this

Voyager2002

Try looking at your reading list. Your tutor had some reason for setting this title, and it will be connected to lectures and hand-outs. Or perhaps you are too smart to waste time going to lectures?

top_drawer_2

Thanks for the help. I have loads of reading matierals which I have read but a lot of it doesnt seem to help me to answer the question. I have attended all lectures but being the independant component, its not covered in the series.

Jen

redpete

top_drawer wrote: »

grrrrrrrrrrr.... I have stupid seen essays to write and this one is really p!ssing me off. The question is:

Critically evaluate the research that supports a gender and age interaction in fear, and perceptions of risk, of crime.

I can't even seem to find this so called research which mentions this interaction ...............

Google "age fear crime" and "gender fear crime" to give a whole list of useful hits - and I'm sure your university subscribes to specific "so called" research databases that would give even more useful references.

The 7th hit for "age gender fear crime" returns a reference to an article entitled "ASSESSING AGE AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERCEIVED RISK AND FEAR OF CRIME" Lagrange, Ferraro 1989 which seems pretty relevant.

JoRowlingRocks

I did something about this in A Level Sociology... Might be a bit of a gamble but you could try looking in A Level textbooks, find the bit on fear of crime, get the researchers' names and then you can do your own further research from there

coffee_prince

It really depends on what discpline you are doing

statistics show that contrary to what you think, those most at risk or crime are young male adults, not the elderly or females