Fear of Crime
Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety
Price: $55.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-43692-2
- Binding: Paperback
- Published by: Routledge-Cavendish
- Publication Date: 3rd July 2008
- Pages: 232
About the Book
An attention to the 'fear of crime' has found its way into governmental interventions in crime prevention and into popular discourse with many newspapers, local government and the like conducting their own fear of crime surveys. As a concept, 'fear of crime' has also produced considerable academic debate since it entered the criminological vocabulary in the 1960s.
Bringing together a collection of new and cutting edge articles from key scholars in criminology, Fear of Crime challenges many assumptions which remain submerged in attempts to measure and attribute cause to crime fear. But, in questioning the orthodoxy of 'fear of crime' models, along with inquiries that have supposed that fear is objectively quantifiable and measurable, the articles collected here also offer new paradigms and methods of inquiry for approaching 'fear of crime'.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Fear of Crime as a Popular Delusion? Murray Lee and Stephen Farrall 1. The Relationship between Likelihood and Fear of Criminal Victimisation: Evaluating Risk Sensitivity Derek Chadee and Jason Ditton 2. Politics, Anxiety and the Fear of Crime: Towards a Psycho-social Understanding Tony Jefferson 3. Developing a Psychology of Social Order Jon Jackson 4. Polls, Politics, and Crime: The 'Law and Order' Issue of the 1960s Dennis Loo 5. Fear of Crime and New Technologies of Government Murray Lee 6. Untangling the Web: Deceitful and Distorted Responding in Crime and Fear of Crime Research Robbie Sutton and Stephen Farrall 7. A Sense of Community: Perceptions of Safety Revisited Michael Enders and Christine Jennett (with Quantitative Analysis by Marian Tulloch) 8. Geographies of Fear Rachel Pain 9. Masculinity and Fear of Crime Kristen Day 10. Preventing Indeterminant Threats: Fear, Terror, and the Politics of Preemption Leanne Weber and Murray Lee. Conclusion: Where Next for the Fear of Crime? Jason Ditton, Murray Lee and Stephen Farrall