Note
Research outline presented at the Summit on the Economics of Policing and Community Safety held in Ottawa, 2-4 March, 2015.
Issued also in French under the title: Enquête de conjoncture : cartes de la crainte cognitive.
Author(s) affiliated with: Simon Fraser University.
Summary
" The research presented here compares two samples (n=235) of businesses in the City of Vancouver. A visualization technique is presented to demonstrate how aggregate cognitive maps about perception of crime can be created and used by civic agencies when determining strategies aimed at reducing fear of crime."