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(1999) FARRALL, Stephen & DITTON, Jason "Improving the measurement of attitudinal response: an example from a crime survey", International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp 55-68. To read more, click here.

(1999) DITTON, Jason, FARRALL, Stephen, BANNISTER, Jon, GILCHRIST, Elizabeth & PEASE, Ken, "Reactions to victimisation: why has anger been ignored?" Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal, Vol 1, No. 3. pp. 37-54. To read more, click here.

(1999) DITTON, Jason, BANNISTER, Jon, GILCHRIST, Elizabeth & FARRALL, Stephen, "Afraid or Angry? Recalibrating the fear of crime", International Review of Victimology, Vol 6, No. 2, pp. 83-99. To read more, click here.

(1999) DITTON, Jason, BANNISTER, Jon, FARRALL, Stephen & GILCHRIST, Elizabeth, Attitudes to crime, victimisation and the police in Scotland: A comparison of White and Ethnic Minority views, The Scottish Office Central Research Unit, pp. 101. To read the Executive Summary, click here.

(1999) DITTON, Jason, Attitudes to crime, victimisation and the police in Scotland: A comparison of White and Ethnic Minority views, The Scottish Office Central Research Unit Crime and Criminal Justice Research Findings No. 28, pp. 6. The full text of this can be accessed and downloaded by visiting the Scottish Office website (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/cru) and then by clicking on CRU PUBLICATIONS, then on ONLINE CRU PUBLICATIONS BY AREA, then by selecting CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH, and finally by selecting No. 28. Click on the blue site ahead for autorouting: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/cru

(1999) DITTON, Jason "Scottish ethnic minorities, crime, and the police", Ch 17, pp. 302-318, in Neil Hutton and Peter Duff (eds) Criminal Justice in Scotland, Ashgate/Dartmouth, Aldershot. To read more, click here.

(1998) GILCHRIST, Elizabeth; FARRALL, Stephen; BANNISTER, Jon and DITTON, Jason "Women and Men Talking about the 'Fear of Crime': Challenging the Accepted Stereotype", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring, pp. 283-298. To read more, click here.

(1998) DITTON, Jason, FARRALL, Stephen, BANNISTER, Jon & GILCHRIST, Elizabeth, "Measuring fear of crime", Criminal Justice Matters, No. 31, Spring, pp. 10-12. To read more, click here.

(1997) FARRALL, Stephen; BANNISTER, Jon; DITTON, Jason and GILCHRIST, Elizabeth "Measuring Crime and the 'Fear of Crime': Findings from a Methodological Study", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 657-678. To read more, click here.

(1997) FARRALL, Stephen; BANNISTER, Jon; DITTON, Jason and GILCHRIST, Elizabeth "Open and Closed Questions", Social Research Update, 17. To read more, click here. To access the whole document from source, click on the blue site ahead: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/SRU17.html

(1995) HARTLESS, Julie M., DITTON, Jason, NAIR, Gwyneth & PHILLIPS, Samuel, "More Sinned Against than Sinning: A Study of Young Teenagers' Experience of Crime", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 114-133. To read more, click here.

(1993) NAIR, Gwyneth, DITTON, Jason, and PHILLIPS, Samuel, "Environmental Improvements and the Fear of Crime: The Sad Case of the 'Pond' Area in Glasgow", British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 555-61. To read more, click here.

 

These’ll be out soon…!

(2000) DITTON, Jason & FARRALL, Steven (eds) The Fear of Crime, International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology, Dartmouth, Aldershot.

(2000) CHADEE, Derek & DITTON, Jason "Fear of Crime in Trinidad: A preliminary empirical research note", Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social Psychology.

(2000) DITTON, Jason, FARRALL, Stephen, BANNISTER, Jon & GILCHRIST, Elizabeth, "Crime Surveys and the Measurement Problem: Fear of Crime", in V. Jupp, P. Davies & P. Francis (eds) Doing Criminological Research, Sage, London. To read more, click here.

(1999) FARRALL, Stephen, BANNISTER, Jon, DITTON, Jason, & GILCHRIST, Elizabeth, "Social Psychology and the fear of crime: re-examining a speculative model", British Journal of Criminology.