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The Defensible Space Model of Fear and Elderly Public Housing Residents

Janice Bastlin Normoyle

Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame.

Jeanne M. Foley

Department of Psychology, Loyola University of Chicago.

This study examines elderly public housing residents' fear and perceptions of the local crime problem. Based upon hypotheses proposed in Newman's theory of defensible space (1972), it was predicted that (a) high-rise tenants are more fearful and perceive the crime problem as greater than do tenants of low-rise buildings and (b) the negative effects of the high-rise are reduced when older residents are segregated from younger tenants. The analysis of survey responses by 945 elderly tenants nationwide indicated that building height had a significant effect upon reactions to crime. Unexpectedly, however, fear was lower among high-rise dwellers even though those who were segregated within these buildings assessed the local crime problem as more serious. These effects were not mediated by the incidence of crime on-site nor the elderly's victimization experience. The implications of these findings for the defensible space model of fear are discussed.

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 1, 50-74 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/0013916588201003
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