The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime brings together original and international state of the art contributions of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of perceptions of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk. This is timely as fear of crime has now been a focus of scholarly and policy interest for some fifty years and shows little sign of abating. Research on fear of crime is demonstrative of the inter-disciplinarity of criminology, drawing in the disciplines of sociology, psychology, political science, history, cultural studies, gender studies, planning and architecture, philosophy and human geography. This collection draws in many of these interdisciplinary themes. This collections also extends the boundaries of fear of crime research. It does this both methodologically and conceptually, but perhaps more importantly it moves us beyond some of the often repeated debates in this field to focus on novel topics from unique perspectives. The book begins by plotting the history of fear of crime’s development, then moves on to investigate the methodological and theoretical debates that have ensued and the policy transfer that occurred across jurisdictions. Key elements in debates and research on fear of crime concerning gender, race and ethnicity are covered, as are contemporary themes in fear of crime research, such as regulation, security, risk and the fear of terrorism, the mapping of fear of crime and fear of crime beyond urban landscapes. The final sections of the book explore geographies of fear and future and unique directions for this research.
Author(s): Murray Lee; Gabe Mythen
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 515
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Contents
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List of contributors
Introduction
PART I Histories of fear of crime
1 Fear of crime before ‘fear of crime?’
2 ‘Hot under the collar’: the garrotting moral panic of the 1860s
3 The discovery of fear of crime in the U.K.
4 The ebbs and flows of anxiety: how emotional responses to crime and disorder influenced social policy in the U.K. into the twenty-first century
PART II Mediating fear of crime
5 Fear the monster!: racialised violence, sovereign power and the thin blue line
6 After the culture of fear: fear of crime in the United States half a century on
7 Fear 2.0: worry about cybercrime in England and Wales
8 Beyond moral panic: young people and fear of crime
9 Nothing to fear but fear itself?: liquid provocations for new media and fear of crime
PART III Methodologies and conceptual debates
10 A construal-level approach to the fear of crime
11 Qualifying fear of crime: multi-methods approaches
12 Visual methods in research on fear of crime: a critical assessment
13 The perils of ‘uncertainty’ for fear of crime research in the twenty-first century
PART IV Dissecting and stratifying fear of crime
14 Crime and the fear of Muslims
15 Gender, violence and the fear of crime: women as fearing subjects?
16 Discovering ‘the enemy within’: the state, fear and criminology
PART V Law, regulation and policing the fear of crime
17 In the eye of the (motivated) beholder: towards a motivated cognition perspective on disorder perceptions
18 Countering fears of terrorism: policing and community relations
19 Do police officers fear crime in the same way as the population?: results of a local police survey on insecurity and fear of crime in Switzerland
20 Policing, performance indicators and fear of crime
21 Curating risk, selling safety?: fear of crime, responsibilisation and the surveillance school economy
PART VI Contexts and geographies of fear of crime
22 Removing fear of crime: the role of regulation in creating safer spaces for sex workers
23 Fear and insecurity in Latin America
24 Fear of crime and overall anxieties in rural areas: the case of Sweden
25 Additive and synergistic perceived risk of crime: a multilevel longitudinal study in Peru
26 Punitive populism and fear of crime in Central America
27 Research on fear of crime in China
PART VII Connecting fear of crime: new approaches and ways forward
28 How to break a rape culture: gendered fear of crime and the myth of the stranger-rapist
29 Becoming feared: fashioning and projecting the violent self
30 The fear drop
31 “Hyphenated fears” and “camouflaged” responses: fear of crime, war and militarism
Conclusion: Advancing fear of crime? Emergent themes and new directions
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