How Specific Is Fear of Crime? a Situational Approach to Comparing Fear of Crime with Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Fear of Injury, and Fear of the Unknown

The online study (N=172) investigated if fear of crime (foc) represents an independent construct. Various fears were assessed dispositionally (using questionnaires) and situationally (using vignettes). The low correlations of those fears with foc provide evidence that foc can be considered as a specific fear.