Study title

Fear of crime and experience of students as victims of criminal acts. Topics: type of personal experience as victim; information on last experience as victim; time of incident and personal reaction; consequences for the culprit; presence and assistance of third parties at the incident; report to the police; conversations about the incident; personal feelings of fear in the evening or in darkness (scale); territories avoided in the immediate residential surroundings as well as reasons for these feelings of fear; reading of reports about criminal offenses; general personal feelings of fear (scale); sense of security on the street; personal measures to increase sense of security and possible behavioral changes for fear of threat; athletic activities; membership in a political group as well as assumed effects of political commitment on personal self-confidence and feelings of fear. Demography: age; sex; city size; housing situation; subject; number of semesters. Also encoded was: faculty.