ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to study the individual and contextual determinants of the perceived risk of crime in Peru. It describes the development of synergistic perceived risk of crime as a way to control for biases not taken into account by the additive approach. The chapter explains the calculation of separated synergistic perceived risk of crime measures by gender, thus assuming different structures of perceived risks of crime between women and men. It analyses the effect of family victimisation on their member's perceived risk of crime. In Criminology, fear of crime has been by and large a more common object of study than perceived risk of crime. Fear of crime literature is more developed and has naturally been more frequently the object of criticism. The underlying assumption is that the marginal effect of each crime is the same, meaning that every crime equally contributes to perceived risk. Crime rate is overestimated but indirect victimisation and household economic instability are underestimated.
