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Sets out a radical and innovative new way for understanding how people interpret and make sense of crime, arguing that certain incidents change how people think, feel and behave about their safety due to their actions operating as signals to the presence of wider risks and threats.
List of contents
- 1: A Signal Crimes Perspective
- 2: Why Disorder Matters: Reading Urban Situations
- 3: How Fear Travels: The Private, Parochial, and Public Harm Footprints of Criminal Homicides
- 4: The Crimes That Were Not There: 'Soft Facts' and the Causes and Consequences of Crime Rumours
- 5: The Long Shadow of the Twin Towers and the 'New' Counter-terrorism: A Case Study of the Institutional Effects of Signal Crimes
- 6: Control Signals
- An Afterword on Method: 'Gonzo Research' and the Uses of Systematic and Unsystematic Social Observation
About the author
Martin Innes is Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University where he leads the work of the Universities' Police Science Institute. He is recognised as one of the world's leading thinkers on policing and social control. Author of two previous books Investigating Murder (Oxford) and Understanding Social Control (Open University Press), from 2004-14 he was Editor of the journal Policing and Society, and he has been a contributor to the Guardian and Prospect Magazine. His work on signal crimes was one of the key influences upon the development of Neighbourhood Policing in the UK, and has led to him being regularly asked to advise policing agencies and governments around the world, including in the US, Australia, Canada and Holland.
Summary
Sets out a radical and innovative new way for understanding how people interpret and make sense of crime, arguing that certain incidents change how people think, feel and behave about their safety due to their actions operating as signals to the presence of wider risks and threats.
Additional text
"Nothing short of a new framework for understanding the social meaning of crime and criminal justice."
