Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29776 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 904
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime, the determinants of concerns regarding global terrorism are less well known. Using nationally representative survey data, we analyse and compare the individual determinants of concern about global terrorism and crime, and show that worries about terrorism are driven by similar determinants as those about crime, which could have important policy implications. We furthermore provide an insight into the structure of the determinants of concerns regarding other public and private goods.
Subjects: 
Terrorism
crime
fear
attitudes
GSOEP
JEL: 
H40
D01
D81
F52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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