ABSTRACT
Nonetheless, this was no barrier to policymakers. In fact, as academic criminologists gradually lost interest in fear of crime, attention to the phenomenon only increased in administrative circles [Farrall and Lee, 2009]. As a problem for government, a plethora of di ering policy strategies attempted to target and reduce the prevalence of fear of crime. From xing ‘broken windows,” hardening targets of crime, providing the community with information on crime prevention and “real crime rates” to high-visibility policing, closed-circuit television (CCTV), public assurance policing, crime prevention through environmental design, and place management, fear of crime has been an identi ed enemy subjected to a policy barrage. Despite this, levels of fear continue to show a stubborn intransigence in their quanti ed form. Recent surveys have revealed increased levels of recorded fear in some quarters despite the continued drop in many categories of recorded crime (see later in the chapter).
