ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|57 pages
Histories of fear of crime
chapter 4|15 pages
The ebbs and flows of anxiety
part II|72 pages
Mediating fear of crime
chapter 9|14 pages
Nothing to fear but fear itself?
part III|69 pages
Methodologies and conceptual debates
part IV|46 pages
Dissecting and stratifying fear of crime
part V|71 pages
Law, regulation and policing the fear of crime
chapter 17|19 pages
In the eye of the (motivated) beholder
chapter 19|17 pages
Do police officers fear crime in the same way as the population?
chapter 21|10 pages
Curating risk, selling safety?
part VI|91 pages
Contexts and geographies of fear of crime
chapter 22|14 pages
Removing fear of crime
chapter 25|20 pages
Additive and synergistic perceived risk of crime
part VII|76 pages
Connecting fear of crime