Although fear of crime is well-researched in urban domains, the predictors of fear of crime in non-urban contexts are less established. Using a sample of 559 people, this study aims to address this gap by evaluating the role of individual and ecological-level predictors on fear of crime in a small Canadian municipality. Key findings of this study include support for the influence of social cohesion, informal social control and social and physical disorder on fear in a small municipality. However, no clear relationship is found between gender and fear of crime. Additionally, nuanced relationships between social predictors and fear emerge that may be uniquely explained by non-metropolitan context. The findings have implications for the use of urban-based criminological theories of fear and for the use of crime prevention and fear reduction strategies in non-metropolitan contexts.

尽管在城市领域对犯罪的恐惧进行了充分的研究，但在非城市环境中对犯罪的恐惧的预测因素却很少。本研究使用559人作为样本，旨在通过评估个人和生态级别的预测因素在一个加拿大小型城市中对犯罪的恐惧感的作用来解决这一差距。这项研究的主要发现包括支持一个小城市的社会凝聚力，非正式的社会控制以及社会和身体疾病对恐惧的影响。但是，在性别和对犯罪的恐惧之间没有发现明确的关系。此外，社会预测因素与恐惧之间的细微关系也可以通过非都市背景来唯一解释。