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Afraid or Angry? Recalibrating the ‘fear’ of Crime
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The authors found that being angry about the threat of criminal victimisation is more frequently reported than being 'af... This latter exercise confirmed that being ‘angry' about being targeted by criminal victimization is more frequent reported than 'af' The authors.Abstract:
Studying the fear of crime is a research field that has grown enormously in the past two decades. Yet our empirical knowledge has grown at the expense of conceptual development. It is beginning to be suspected that ‘fear’ is a term encompassing a confusing variety of feelings, perspectives, risk-estimations, and which thus means different things to different people. It is additionally suggested that what we know empirically may well be largely an artefact of the fact that the questions that are put repeatedly to respondents seldom vary, and the ways that those questions are put, and the settings in which they are put seldom change. The research project which is in part reported here initially used one set of respondents to develop new questions relating to their general and specific feelings about criminal victimisation, before testing them on another, much larger sample. This latter exercise confirmed that being ‘angry’ about the threat of criminal victimisation is more frequently reported than being ‘af...read more
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Signal crimes and signal disorders: notes on deviance as communicative action.
TL;DR: A 'signal crimes' perspective is outlined in an effort to unpack the relationships between experiences of crime and disorder, and perceptions of criminogenic risk.
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Reassessing the Fear of Crime
TL;DR: The British Crime Survey (BCS) has asked questions exploring English and Welsh respondents' worry about crime since 1982, and in the 2003-4 sweep of the BCS new questions were inserted into a subsection to explore the frequency and intensity of such fearful events as mentioned in this paper.
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Reinventing Tradition? Reassurance, Neighbourhood Security and Policing
TL;DR: In this article, the symbolic and material dimensions of contemporary policing reform programs are examined, focusing on the trajectory of emergence of reassurance policing, and they are examined in terms of symbolic and physical dimensions.
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Introduction : Fear and the City:
Jon Bannister,Nicholas R. Fyfe +1 more
Abstract: The urban studies literature is infused with the image of the city as a celebration of difference, as a medium through which the totality of modern living is co-joined and given meaning. However, this vision of the city, of its public places and streets providing an arena in which to experience and learn from diversity (Sennett, 1996), is under threat. Alternative images which depict the city as an unruly, unsettling and disorderly place are increasingly dominant. Difference is now seen as overwhelming and dangerous, to be excluded or segregated where possible—indeed, something to be afraid of. Crime and the fear of crime appear to have been integral to this change. The latter half of the 20th century witnessed crime rates soar in many urban centres. Further, the fear of crime, which received scant attention until the 1980s, is now recognised as a more widespread problem than crime itself (Hale, 1996). Together, crime and the fear of crime have been seen to blight urban life, attacking the economic, social and political fabric of cities. Seemingly, crime and the fear of crime have drained cities of their vital essence: the celebration of difference. These observations raise numerous questions. What is the nature of fear? Is fear a product of the criminogenic conditions which appear to have ourished in urban environments? Or, is fear more broadly allied to city-dwelling, a metaphor for the quality of urban life? In what ways has fear impacted upon the economic, social and political environments of the city? How has the city responded to the challenge posed by widespread anxiety and urban disorder? Ultimately, is it possible to reconcile the con icting images of the city as a celebration of difference and as an arena in which difference is to be feared?
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Estimating the economic and social costs of the fear of crime
Paul Dolan,Tessa Peasgood +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a methodology to provide estimates of the intangible costs arising from the anticipation of possible victimisation, i.e., the costs of fear of crime.
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Fear of crime: A review of the literature.
TL;DR: The literature on fear of crime has grown rapidly in the last three decades as discussed by the authors, and the reasons for this growth and attempts to put some structure on the work to date are discussed and alternative approaches suggested.
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The Measurement of Fear of Crime
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual definition of fear of crime and then systematically review the way it has been measured in research over the last fifteen years, concluding that although the relationship between fear and risk of crime is only moderately correlated, a substantial number of studies have used risk measures and generalized to fear.
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QUESTIONING THE MEASUREMENT OF THE ‘FEAR OF CRIME’: Findings from a Major Methodological Study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that our understanding of the fear of crime is a product of how it has been researched rather than the way it is, and propose some possible solutions to the epistemological, conceptual, operational and technical problems discussed.
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Fear of Crime: Incivility and the Production of a Social Problem
Dan A. Lewis,Greta W. Salem +1 more
TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors argue that fear of crime is not only related to exposure or knowledge about criminal events alone but also stems from residents' concerns about broad changes taking place in their neighborhoods.
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WOMEN AND THE ‘FEAR OF CRIME’Challenging the Accepted Stereotype
TL;DR: This paper found that women are more likely to be fearful of crime than men, while men are more confident in their feelings of being safe from crime, and paradoxically, fearful men and fearless women are paradoxically equal.