Introduction -- Fear of crime : a selective prehistory -- Anxieties in the knowledgeable society : the birth of a new criminological object -- Surveying the fearful : the international expansion of the victim survey -- Fearing subjects : some new questions of (the) discipline -- Governing the fearful and inventing the feared -- Consuming fear : the marketing (of) monsters --Conclusion: Don't mention the F word
Summary
The notion of the fear of crime has become as important as crime itself. This book analyses the emergence of the fear of crime as a meaningful concept in both social enquiry and governmental and political discourse particularly in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and North America
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index
