Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety

by Lee; Murray

• ISBN13: 9780415436922
• ISBN10: 0415436923
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-08-19
• Publisher: Cavendish Pub Ltd

Summary

As a concept, the 'fear of crime' has produced considerable academic debate since the 1960s. Attention to the 'fear of crime', 'anxiety about crime' and 'insecurity' in general has found its way into governmental thinking, policy interventions in crime prevention, and popular discourse. Many national, regional and local governments now conduct their own studies into the fear of crime, as do media companies and polling organisations.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Critical voices in an age of anxiety: a reintroduction to the fear of crime	p. 1
The 'moral panic' that wasn't: the sixties crime issue in the US	p. 12
The enumeration of anxiety: power, knowledge and fear of crime	p. 32
Critical geopolitics and everyday fears	p. 45
Preventing indeterminate threats: fear, terror and the politics of preemption	p. 59
Being feared: masculinity and race in public space	p. 82
Untangling the web: deceptive responding in fear of crime research	p. 108
Anxiety, defensiveness and the fear of crime	p. 125
Bridging the social and the psychological in the fear of crime	p. 143
State-trait anxiety and fear of crime: a social psychological perspective	p. 168
Revisiting fear of crime in Bondi and Marrickville: sense of community and perceptions of safety	p. 188
Critical voices in an age of anxiety: ending with the identification of where to begin ...	p. 211
Index	p. 215
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