ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on both histories and messages demonstrate, modes of communication and processes of regulation are dependent on contexts. It also focuses on a constructed climate of punitive populism, in the case in Central America. The book provides critical perspectives on fear of crime and exploring intersections with cognate processes and fields of research. It argues that have preceded this end-piece would seem to warn against developing finite assumptions about fear of crime, less still the formulation of neat road maps designed to move criminology forward. The book describes the routes of fear of crime as it emerged as a policy issue in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s. It draws on the mediation of fear of crime, with an explicit focus on messages communicated about the phenomena.
