The Effect of Fear of CRIME on Perception of Severity of Sexual CRIME

The purpose of this study is to examine how fear of crime influences on awareness of severity to sex offense. By examining the impact of crime perceived safety on the severity of sex offense through statistical testing, the purpose of this study is to determine whether the fear of some parts of sex offense significantly influences the severity of sex offense. In addition, it aims to examine whether Recognition for Police Activity has mediator effect between awareness to severity of sex offense. Based on 1,064 cases of the secondary material through e-mail research and random telephone interview for 1,100 people as study subjects of a customer evaluation group of policing policy of the National police agency excluding 54 cases of missing data, it confirmed the effect that recognition of fear of crime and crime prevention activity affects to severity of sex offense through multiple re-gression analysis by utilizing IBM SPSS Statistics 21. In addition, Sobel test was conducted to confirm that the mediating variable of the recognition of police activity was partial or complete and to verify the mediator effect. As a result, a group that answered that sex offense should be eradicated for the first was resulted 528 people that is 50.5% of whole answerer, which is 204 people of male and 324 people of female. It was confirmed that all the factors of crime influence on the cognitive variables of crime prevention activities among the fear of crime. The variables affecting to the severity of sexual offense were identified as the fear of sex offense, school violence, and police activity. In conclusion, it was confirmed that the fear of sex offense and school violence has a signifi-cant effect on the recognition of severity of sex offense, and the Sobel-test showed that the recognition of the police s crime prevention activity was significant as a parameter between all independent variables and the de-pendent variables of perception of sex offense severity. It was confirmed that the results of the analysis were different according to the analysis model. However, it was confirmed that the perceived safety of the sex offense and the police s crime prevention activity affects to the recognition of severity to sex offense of the citizen. There-fore, patrol activities and patrolling activities for fear of sex offense, and polices to reduce the number of criminal cases such as police s crime prevention activity seems to be required.