RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OCCURRENCE OF SNATCH AND ELDERLY PEOPLE'S FEELING OF INSECURITY

Abstract

By using bayesian network, we assessed the correlations between the occurrence of snatch and the reasons for the increase in elderly people’s feeling of insecurity toward snatch-thieves in walking environment. The following findings were noted: 1)36.4% correlation between safe road-uneasy feeling; 6.4% between unsafe road-uneasy feeling; 16.1% between unsafe road-safety feeling, 16.1%; 2)the strongest relationship being between safety/uneasy feeling toward pedestrian/vehicle flow and occurrence of snatch; and 3)The correlation between uneasy feeling toward pedestrian/vehicle flow and occurrence of snatch at the same time range it is expected is 41%, while occurrence of snatch when it is not expected is 26%.