This study aims to analyze the causes of the disabled people’s fear of crimes and to
provide the implication to relevant policies. For this, we scrutinize how the disabled perceive
the fear toward felonies and the police action.
Further, we empirically tested how police action and their recognition toward it affects
the fear toward crimes, on the basis of collective efficacy and victimization which is believed
to have effects on people’s fear of crimes.
As the physically disabled are incompetent to respond to the questions, we survey 122
person with physical disability for 25 branches of Seoul Association of Person Physically
Disabled.
Our regression results show negative correlations between collective efficacy and fear of
crimes, which is in accord with preceding researches of the non-handicapped. While indirect
victimization shows positive correlations with their fear toward crime, it is ot statistically
significant in conventional confidence level. Contrarily, direct victimization shows positive
correlation with it, and the coefficient is different from zero in conventional level. As it is
proven from preceding studies, confidence in police action and their perception toward it
has negative correlations with their fear of crimes.