ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the blurring of conceptual boundaries between "crime" and "terrorism" should also consider the creeping nature of paternal state militarism as a "camouflaged" geopolitical "security" response. It describes a brief genealogy of "fear of crime" is offered to provide theoretical context and illustrates a conceptual focus of attention within the literature: "security". The chapter argues that what criminologists have thus far failed to fully account for within the fear of crime debate is the significance of militarised responses to crime and security under the auspices of war. In "naming" a series of "hyphenated fears" and "iconic" dangers President Trump resurrected and extended the previously imagined "axis of evil" under the Bush administration and reconstituted a symbolic 'non-white terroristic other'. "Fear of crime" is a discursive arena within criminology, one that has frequently seen its objects of study constructed and reconstructed in public, political and academic discourse.
