Investigating the extent and factors of fear of crime in Kabul

Fear of crime among the citizens of a society is an important topic in the study of criminology and sociology of deviations, because the fear of crime, despite challenging the security of all countries, even It affects individuals' private lives, to the point where it intensifies feelings of distrust and vulnerability in individuals and divides communities. Therefore, fear of crime must be carefully analyzed. The main question is whether the residents of the 13th district of Kabul were fear of crime? In what places, what are they afraid of and why?This research has been used as a survey and Pearson correlation type. The statistical population was all residents of 13-District of Kabul, which 285 people were interviewed by multi-stage cluster sampling. The main and the dependent variables were measured with multiple choice Likert scale.The findings and results obtained from this study indicate that the total level of fear among the residents (from a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 5) was 3.43. Women with an average of 3.19 are more afraid of crime than men with an average of 2.95. There was a significant relationship between the variables of social disorganization, micro cultural diversity, neighborhood trust and neighborhood affiliation with the fear of crime variable. But there was no significant relationship between the variables of police and media practice with the variable of fear of crime.