ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 briefly explores the hidden landscape of global crime before excavating the equally neglected hidden landscape of everyday crime. Concerned primarily with the latter, the first part of this chapter endeavours to capture and convey the pervasive and almost inured mundanity of crime and victimisation in areas such as the one in which this research was conducted. Indeed, it illuminates the reality of living in areas where a mixture of various forms of crime and harm form common constituents of everyday life. Experiences which often go unreported and unrecorded and as such exist beyond the range of the ‘crime decline’s’ statistical radar. The second part of Chapter 3 draws attention to numerous social harms excluded from the ‘crime decline’ discourse. Utilising an advanced harm perspective these otherwise ignored social issues are explored. Moreover, this chapter introduces the concept of ‘the Anthropocene of harm’ and argues in favour of positioning the study of harm as a serious focal concern at the heart of the criminological enterprise, while cautioning against the advancement of false alternatives between zemiology and criminology.
