Özet:

Social networks have entered our lives in 1997 and has become indispensable in a short time. Facebook, with 1,366 billion users, is located at the top of this social networking world. Studies carried out on this site, which has 34 million user accounts in Turkey, revealed that the fact of crime has taken its place and crimes can easily be committed on Facebook as in the real world. Fear of crime is both a result of crimes committed and a factor that makes it hard to fight against crimes. So, one of the priorities of fighting against crimes is reducing the fear of crime. To achieve that, first the level of it must be set. In this study we aimed to measure the fear of crime through the Facebook example. The data for this study was collected from a questionnaire, which was conducted with 141 active Facebook users.through the data analysis, we found that the pre-victims of any information technologies crimes have more fear of crime than others. Also, according to the findings of our study we showed that there is not any significant relationship between gender and fear of crime, contrary to the previous studies. Additionally, the duration of Facebook membership and the frequency of daily Facebook usage of any participant has no significant relationships with fear of crime.

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