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Social Order and the Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times
The fear of crime has been recognized as an important social problem, affecting a significant number of people. In this book, the authors review the findings from over 35 years of research into attitudes to crime and propose a new model, separating those who only 'expressively' fear crime from those who have actual experience of worrying about it.
| Author(s) | By Stephen D. Farrall, Jonathan Jackson, Emily Gray. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 344 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 1 Oct 2009 |
| Availability | Available |
The fear of crime has been recognized as an important social problem, affecting a significant number of people. In this book, the authors review the findings from over 35 years of research into attitudes to crime and propose a new model, separating those who only 'expressively' fear crime from those who have actual experience of worrying about it.
PART I ; 1. Introduction ; 2. The Provenance of Fear ; 3. What is the Fear of Crime? A Rhetorical Question with No One Clear Answer ; 4. Theorising the Fear of Crime: The Cultural and Social Significance of Insecurity ; PART II ; 5. Conversations about Cr
Emily Gray is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Law, Politics & Justice, Keele University. She previously worked at Centre for Criminological Research, Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and has co-authored a book on Serious Offenders.
