%0 Journal Article
%T Factores Ambientais e Psicossociais da Avalia£¿£¿o do Risco de Furto por Carteirista: O Caso de Dois Locais em Lisboa
%A Sautkina
%A Elena
%A Ant¨®nio
%A Clara
%A Caseira
%A Hugo
%A Correia
%A Filipe
%A Dimitriou
%A Dimitris
%A Grij¨®
%A Cl¨¢udia
%A Loureiro
%A Ana
%A Morais
%A Rita
%J Psicologia
%D 2007
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X it is in common knowledge that pick-£¿pocketing is a type of crime encountered in urban environments. based on previously identified environmental and psychosocial factors of spatial representations of security/insecurity, the current research aimed at exploring environmental factors that could affect people£¿s evaluations, as regards the risk of being pick-£¿pocketed. with this purpose, two sites in lisbon differing mainly in their physical and social environmental features were considered. results show that strong social bonds within a place may appear very important for evaluation of pick-£¿pocketing risk, putting aside and making less important physical layout, whereas in socially heterogeneous places, where social bonds are weaker, physical environment becomes consequently more important for perceptions of safety.
%K pick-pocketing
%K risk evaluation
%K social bonds
%K spatial representation.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0874-20492007000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en