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This paper provides a review of the literature on fear of crime among the elderly and its determinants, and a conceptual framework within which to locate the strengths and weaknesses of these works. Variations in fear among elderly of similar backgrounds and residential settings are discussed, along with the fact that although the elderly comprise the most fearful age group, they are actually the least victimized age group. I also argue that the major problems with the existing literature on the effects of fear of crime are the scarcity of research on fear of crime—and the consequences of that fear—and the lack of temporal order with respect to fear and related behaviors.
Peter P. Yin (Tue,) studied this question.