This book presents an alternative approach to understanding fear and crime by examining those who are feared or who cause fear to others, as opposed to those who are fearful of crime. The existing research into the fearful and the fear of crime offers little insight into this particular experience and so this book represents a missing link in our understanding of how fear of crime is understood by all of those that experience it. It draws on some powerful interviews with juveniles, police officers, soldiers, muscular gym-goers and bouncers/doormen who can be interpreted as being feared. This book focuses on the perceptions, emotions and ensuing actions of those who are perceived as a threat to security by others. It provides an in-depth analysis of the perception of fear in interactions, how this is recognised within an encounter, how these perceptions are attributed and reacted upon, how these experiences relate to particular situations, and how they are structured in ongoing life experiences. It suggests 'pillars' of fear.
Author(s): Ben Ellis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 155
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
1 An Introduction to Being Feared
Fear of Crime and Being Feared: A Brief Background
Turning the Tables on Fear of Crime: The Aims and Purpose of This Research
The Conceptual Approach to the Research
Methodology Within the Research
Towards an Understanding of ‘Being Feared?’
Structure of the Book
References
2 An Object of Fear? Setting the Scene for Understanding Being Feared
The Dramaturgical Model
Meaning and Interaction
Dramaturgical Awareness
Defining the Parameters of Being Feared: Goffman’s Encounters
Focused and Unfocused Interaction
Performance and the Minutia of Interaction
Front: Setting, Appearance and Manner
Goffman: From Situation to Structure
Primary Frameworks
References
3 Pillars of Fear—Purposeful Fear
Purposeful Fear
References
4 Pillars of Fear: Accidental Fear
Being Feared: Why Me?
References
5 Pillars of Fear: Alleviating Fear
Adapting to the Presence of Fear
References
6 Pillars of Fear: Competent/Dutiful Fear
References
7 The Importance of Context: The Body, the Desire and the Duty
The Importance of the Body—The Presentation of Self
The Importance of Context
References
8 Conclusion: The Dynamics of Being Feared—The Polarity of Intensions
Where to from Here?
References
Bibliography
Index
