The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear
The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

Author: Vania Ceccato

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-06-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 940074210X

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How does the city’s urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect one’s decision to commit an offence? Is there a victimisation-related inequality within cities? How do crime and fear interrelate to inequality and segregation in cities of developing countries? What are the challenges to planning cities which are both safe and sustainable? This book searches for answers to these questions in the nature of the city, particularly in the social interactions that take place in urban space distinctively guided by different land uses and people’s activities. In other words, the book deals with the urban fabric of crime and fear. The novelty of the book is to place safety and security issues on the urban scale by (1) showing links between urban structure, and crime and fear, (2) illustrating how different disciplines deal with urban vulnerability to (and fear of) crime (3) including concrete examples of issues and challenges found in European and North American cities, and, without being too extensive, also in cities of the Global South.

Fear of Crime
Fear of Crime

Author: Dan A. Lewis, Greta W. Salem

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published:

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781412823487

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This book argues that fear of crime is not always triggered by direct experience with, or knowledge about, criminal events. Fear can also be elicited by what can be termed 'incivility' - those features in a community that reflect the erosion of commonly accepted standards and values. Fear becomes a social problem when collective action is difficult and social change is rapid and devastating. In those communities where citizens develop the capacity to regulate behaviour in conformance with conventional standards, fear will be held in check. The book describes the results of a major research initiative undertaken by the Reactions to Crime Project (1975-80), and conducted at Northwestern University. In it, the authors trace the development of fear of crime as a social problem in the United States, and the dominance of the victimization perspective in its analysis, outline the major components of the social control perspective, and apply that perspective in the analysis of project data collected in ten neighborhoods in Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The final two chapters discuss the policy implications of the study.

The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime
The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime

Author: Murray Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 879

ISBN-13: 1317311078

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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.

The Fear of Crime
The Fear of Crime

Author: Jason Ditton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 1351544632

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Studies of the fear of crime have constituted what is undeniably the fastest growing research area within criminology in the last decade and this shows no sign of diminishing. The editors have a distinguished record of innovative research in the field, being responsible for a number of seminal empirical and theoretical articles. In this volume, they have collected together and for the first time, all the most significant contributions to the field. The collection includes an introductory essay by the editors and articles reflecting: an overview of the field; the causes of vulnerability; the sources of information on victimisation; the methods used to survey fear; the theoretical models employed to explain it; and the nature of policies designed to reduce fear.

Social Order and the Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times
Social Order and the Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times

Author: Stephen D. Farrall

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0199540810

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The fear of crime has been recognized as an important social problem, affecting a significant number of people. In this book, the authors review the findings from over 35 years of research into attitudes to crime and propose a new model, separating those who only 'expressively' fear crime from those who have actual experience of worrying about it.

Fear, Space and Urban Planning
Fear, Space and Urban Planning

Author: Simone Tulumello

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 3319439375

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This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations. By focusing especially on the southern European cities of Palermo and Lisbon, the book also aims to expand upon recent studies on urban geopolitics, enriching them from the perspective of ordinary, as opposed to global, cities. Readers will find enlightening analysis of the ways in which urban fear is (re)produced, including by misinformative discourses on security and fear and the political construction of otherness as a means of exclusion. The spatialization of fear, e.g., through fortification, privatization, and fragmentation, is explored, and the ways in which urban planning is informed by and has in turn been shaping urban fear are investigated. A concluding chapter considers divergent potential futures and makes a call for action. The book will appeal to all with an interest in whether, and to what extent, the production of ‘fearscapes’, the contemporary landscapes of fear, constitutes an emergent urban political economy.