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Author O'Mahony, David, 1961- author.

Title Crime, community and locale : the Northern Ireland communities crime survey / David O'Mahony, Ray Geary, Kieran McEvoy, John Morison
Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; Background to Local Community Crime Surveys; The Notion of Community; Governmentality and the Crime Survey; Outline of Book Structure; 2 Perceptions of the Communities; The Communities; Problems in the Communities; The Top Five Issues in the Communities; Satisfaction with the Communities; Conclusions; 3 Crime and Victimisation in the Communities; Introduction; Crime and Victimisation; Reporting Crime to the Police; Reasons For Not Reporting Incidents to the Police; Witnessing Crime
Conclusions4 Worries and Fears in the Communities; Introduction; General Fear of Crime; Worry about Specific Incidents; Perceptions of Crime in Northern Ireland and Elsewhere; Conclusions; 5 Policing and the Communities; Introduction; General Levels of Satisfaction with the Police; Reporting Crime to the Police; Personal Knowledge of Police Officers; Fairness of the Police; The Importance of Police Tasks; Crime Management and 'Other' Organisations; Conclusions; 6 Securing the Home; Introduction; Crime Prevention; Empty Properties; Insurance; Means of Reducing Crime; Conclusions
7 Children in Public SpaceIntroduction; General Evaluations of Children's Safety; Particular Parental Concerns; Children's Activities: Family and Civil Society; Conclusions; 8 Governmentality, Communities and Crime; Crime, Safety and Governmentality; Communities, Patten and Crime; Security and Control; Appendix 1 Survey Design and Methodology; Selection of the Communities; Criteria Used to Select the Communities; Interviews and Response Rates; Representativeness of the Sample; Appendix 2 The Questionnaire; Bibliography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 20, 2018)
Subject Crime -- Northern Ireland
Police -- Northern Ireland
Victims of crimes surveys -- Northern Ireland
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime
Police
Social conditions
Victims of crimes surveys
SUBJECT Northern Ireland -- Social conditions -- 1969- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092563
Subject Northern Ireland
Form Electronic book
Author Geary, Ray, author
McEvoy, Kieran, author.
Morison, John, author
ISBN 9781315189741
1315189747