Iddisah Sulemana Summary

The journal article written by Iddisah Sulemana covers research surveys on about 27,713 individuals split between twenty different Sub-Saharan African countries. This article consists of original research. The main idea of this article focuses on people’s well-being and the different possible factors that could damage one’s health, happiness, or comfort. The researcher wants to learn whether there are gender differences with one’s fear. Other variables that interfere with a person’s well-being are age, education, unemployment, social capital, religion, and the city they live in. Having multiple variables that interfere with the dependent variable will make it difficult to study whether A really does cause B to happen, which could make causation spurious and that’s a problem. Iddisah Sulemana’s hypothesis for the research study was that fear of crime and crime causation

The first section describes culture of fear and crime victimization that describes that fear of crime is becoming worse than crime in general. The second section talks about the differences in gender for fear of crime and crime victimization. Other researchers state that women tend to overreact to fear of crime, which is why data shows that men’s result of fear becomes extremely lower than women. However, when comparing actual victims of crimes, men tend to fear crime more than women. The final section covers the author’s main focus of the paper, which is crime victimization, fear of crime and well-being. This section covers if a person or someone in their family has feared crime in the city they live in and if their fear has removed their happiness and feeling of safety. From the date this article was published, majority of the articles cited were recently published, yet the majority of the articles would be about seven to nine years old from today’s