The Fear of Crime.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD -- 1 Public Reaction to Crime in the Streets -- 2 A Cross-National Comparison of Victims of Crime: Victim Surveys of Twelve Countries -- PART II THE CAUSES OF VULNERABILITY -- 3 Safe Conduct: Women, Crime, and Self in Public Places -- 4 Boys Don't Cry: Masculinities, Fear of Crime and Fearlessness -- 5 The Elderly's Fear of Crime: A Critical Examination of the Research -- 6 Fear of Criminal Victimization: The Effect of Neighborhood Racial Composition -- 7 The Effects of Building Size on Personal Crime and Fear of Crime -- 8 The Impact of Victimization on Fear -- PART III THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON VICTIMIZATION -- 9 The Impact of a Crime Wave: Perceptions, Fear, and Confidence in the Police -- 10 Living With Television: The Violence Profile -- 11 Television Viewing and Fear of Victimization: Is the Relationship Causal? -- 12 Television Viewing and Fear of Crime: Where Is the Mean World? -- 13 Feeling Safe by Comparison: Crime in the Newspapers -- 14 Fear of Crime: Read All About It? The Relationship between Newspaper Crime Reporting and Fear of Crime -- PART IV THE METHODS OF SURVEYING -- 15 The Measurement of Fear of Crime -- 16 Methodological Problems in the Study of Fears -- 17 New Methodological Perspectives for Victimization Surveys: The Potentials of Computer-Assisted Telephone Surveys and Some Related Innovations -- 18 Methodological Problems in Victim Surveys and their Implications for Research in Victimology -- PART V THEORETICAL MODELS OF EXPLANATION -- 19 Criminology: Testing Alternative Models of Fear of Crime -- 20 Fear of Crime in Residential Environments: Testing a Social Psychological Model -- 21 Vulnerability, Locus of Control, and Worry about Crime.

22 Block Crime and Fear: Defensible Space, Local Social Ties, and Territorial Functioning -- PART VI POLICIES TO REDUCE FEAR -- 23 Fear of Crime: The Effect of Improved Residential Security on a Difficult To Let Estate -- 24 The Effectiveness of a Police-Initiated Fear-Reducing Strategy -- 25 Reducing Fear of Crime: Strategies for Intervention -- 26 Community Crime Prevention: An Analysis of a Developing Strategy -- 27 Environmental Improvements and the Fear of Crime: The Sad Case of the "Pond" Area in Glasgow -- PART VII THE FUTURE? -- 28 Afraid or Angry? Recalibrating the "Fear" of Crime -- Name Index.

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.

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