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Comfortably cosmopolitan? How patterns of social cohesion vary with crime and fear Anine Kriegler and Mark Shaw Overview Research context Cosmo City context Methodology Results Discussion Research context South
Comfortably cosmopolitan? How patterns of ‘social cohesion’ vary with crime and fear Anine Kriegler and Mark Shaw
Overview • Research context • Cosmo City context • Methodology • Results • Discussion
Research context • South African Cities Network’s reference group on urban safety • Developing city level safety indicators • Case study on social cohesion, safety and perceptions in Cosmo City • Time
Cosmo City • Mixed ‐ income, mixed ‐ use PPP • 5 000 RDP, 3 000 credit ‐ linked, 3 300 bonded, 1 000 apartments + schools, parks, retail, commercial, industrial etc. • 70 000+ • Building from 2005, residential completed 2012
Cosmo City • Designed explicitly for social inclusion and cohesion for diverse income levels • Shared spatial use – multi ‐ purpose centre • Neighbourhood design • Naming
Average annual household income 0.35 0.3 0.25 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 Ward 100 Cosmo City Ward 97 Honeydew etc. Ward 113 Greater Diepsloot
Methodology • Interviews – City of Joburg and developers • Survey: demographics, security, local governance, social cohesion, fear, perceptions, experiences of crime (25 Qs) • Based on VOCS but mobile • 400 households, matching housing type proportions
Results: social cohesion • 85% feel part of local community • 73% feel part of whole community • 85% proud to be resident of Cosmo • 73% interact with diverse backgrounds • 87% either satisfied with or keen to interact more Strong social cohesion
Results: fear of crime • 50% always feel safe in Cosmo • 31% in VOCS • 7% feel unsafe in public space • 37% in VOCS Relatively low fear of crime
Results: crime victimisation • About 90% said household has experienced crime in the last 5 years • Rates x3+ greater than in VOCS • 6% said member of household has been murdered in last 5 years High victimisation rates – some implausibly
High social cohesion + low fear of crime + (too) high self ‐ reported crime victimisation
Discussion • Mobile, informal format encourage telescoping? • Actually crime level perception? • Social cohesion → share crime informa � on, blur household boundaries, raise perception of victimisation even while reducing fear
Thank you anine.kriegler@gmail.com mark.shaw@uct.ac.za
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