Today, crime has become a serious threat to social safety so citizen’s desire for safety
has increased. So the private security has emerged as a new industry for safety and
security and became a crucial component. Private security is responsible not only covers
the limitations of the police work, but also fills citizen’s desire of security. However,
quantitative research on private security has rarely been done and the results of the
private security study are not effectively utilized due to biased research trends in Korea.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of community incivility
on fear of crime and the moderation effect of private security. To accomplish this
purpose, this research uses 6,919 samples from the National Crime Victimization
Survey(2014) and conducts hierarchical regression through STATA 13.0 program.
As a results, private security guard showed the main effect on the generalized fear
of crime, but had not a significant influence on the interaction effect with the
community incivility. On the other hand, the moderation effect of electronic security
was statistically significant in relation to the community incivility and specific fear of
crime. In other words, in a place with high physical disorder, the fear of crime is
relatively low in the case of the electronic machine, compared with the case where there
is no electronic machine. The implications and limitations based on these results are
discussed in the conclusion.