The geography of perceived safety of the neighbourhood: An intersectional intercategorical analysis

IF 4 2区地球科学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103594

Sofi Johansson

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Abstract

The perception of safety has been studied in relation to various individual and contextual characteristics. It is rarely considered in quantitative studies that peoples social identities intersect to shape how they perceive safety, and that such intersections are also shaped by place. This paper uses recent innovative developments in statistical modelling that has drawn from intersectional scholarship, bringing these together with a geographical intersectional perspective. A multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) was applied to analyse a nationally representative sample from the “Neighbourhood Survey 2020” carried out by “Anonymized” University. The analysis showed that while most of the variation in perceived safety was explained by separate social labels, a small proportion was attributable to intersectional social strata. It is suggested that quantitative analysis of perceived safety can benefit from understanding respondents’ intersectional social labels, including residential context. This may be particularly important in relation to low response rates of surveys on perceived safety, which may impact the representation of particularly marginalized social groups and places.

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邻里感知安全的地理：交叉分类分析

人们已经研究了安全感知与各种个体和环境特征的关系。在定量研究中很少考虑到人们的社会身份交叉影响了他们对安全的看法，而且这种交叉也受到地点的影响。本文使用了最近从交叉学术中得出的统计模型的创新发展，将这些与地理交叉的观点结合在一起。采用多层次个体异质性和歧视准确性分析（MAIHDA）对“匿名”大学开展的“2020年邻里调查”中具有全国代表性的样本进行了分析。分析表明，虽然感知安全的大部分变化是由单独的社会标签解释的，但一小部分可归因于交叉的社会阶层。研究表明，定量分析感知安全可以从了解受访者的交叉社会标签中受益，包括居住环境。这一点在关于感知安全的调查回复率低的情况下可能特别重要，因为这可能影响到特别边缘化的社会群体和地方的代表性。

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Applied Geography GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

2.00%

发文量

134

期刊介绍： Applied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems. Papers are invited on any theme involving the application of geographical theory and methodology in the resolution of human problems.