Inventing Fear of Crime - Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety

List of contents

1. Introduction  2. Fear of crime: a pre-history  3. Anxieties in the knowledgeable society: the birth of a new criminological object  4. Surveying the fearful: the expansion of the victim survey  5. Fearing subjects  6. Governing and policing the fearful  7. The marketing of monsters  8. Conclusions: don't mention the 'F' word

About the author

Murray Lee is a Director of the Sydney institute of Criminology and a Senior Lecturer in Criminology. He is the author of Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety and co-author of Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in and Age of Anxiety. His current research interests involve the spatial distribution and dynamics of crime and criminalisation in South Western Sydney, crime and social isolation, and fear of crime.

Summary

Traces the emergence of fear of crime as a meaningful concept in both social enquiry and governmental and political discourse - looking in particular at the UK, Australia and New Zealand and North America. This work draws upon a range of literature and research, including interviews with researchers and policy makers involved in this field.

Product details

• Authors: Murray Lee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9781843921752
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-175-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Police & security services, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Police and security services, Causes and prevention of crime