TY - JOUR AB - So far, little is known about the fear of crime among older adults (65+) in Austria. Based on the comparison of an urban, semi-rural and rural region, the present study therefore examines the security perception of older men and women in public spaces. Starting from the great importance that the immediate living environment has for older people, the question of how the phenomena of social and physical disorder in the living environment influence the feeling of security and what role individual attitude towards such phenomena plays is examined. At the same time, in the SI-ALT project (Police and age: Fostering the subjective sense of security of older and very old men and women in public spaces), 756 older Austrians in the three pilot regions were interviewed face-to-face using a standardised questionnaire. The binary-logistic regression analysis shows that older women and people in urban areas, as well as people who have noticed social disorder in their neighbourhood and see it as a problem, take security measures and thus demonstrate a higher level of fear. AU - Rohner, Rebekka AU - Hopf, Stefan AU - Obex, Tanja DO - 10.7396/IE_2020_E ET - 8/2020 KW - fear of crime older adults project SI-ALT demography LA - eng M1 - International Edition PY - 2020 SN - 1813-3495 SP - 54-64 ST - The Fear of Crime among Older Adults in Austria. An urban-rural comparison of the influence of social disorder on the fear of crime in public spaces T2 - SIAK-Journal − Journal for Police Science and Practice TI - The Fear of Crime among Older Adults in Austria. An urban-rural comparison of the influence of social disorder on the fear of crime in public spaces UR - http://www.bmi.gv.at/104/Wissenschaft_und_Forschung/SIAK-Journal/internationalEdition/files/Rohner_IE_2020.pdf VL - 10 ID - 705 ER -