Results
Pearson correlations provided partial support for only one of the study’s hypotheses (H3). There was no support for hypotheses 4, 5, 6, or 7. Hypotheses 1 and 2 were not tested in Study 1. The bivariate relationships are presented in Table 1.
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Fear of crime was related only to cable subscription (r  = .18,p  < .05), supporting none of the hypotheses. Mistrust/anomie was negatively linked to VCR ownership (r = ‑.20,p  < .05), partially supporting hypothesis 3.
Fear of crime (r = .26, p < .01) and mistrust/anomie (r = .41, p  < .001) were both positively related to television viewing. This relationship remained significant for mistrust (r  = .27, p  =.01), after controlling for new technology use (cable subscription, VCR ownership, RCD ownership, time spent watching rented videos, time shifting, and channel changing). The 6th-order partial correlation between television viewing and fear of crime (r  = .14, p  = .06) was nonsignificant. The relationship between television viewing and mistrust/anomie (r  = .26, p  < .05) was maintained when further controlling for age, sex, education, and income. The 10th‑order partial correlation between television viewing and fear of crime (r  = .15, p  = .09) was nonsignificant.
Study 2