Murray Lee

Inventing Fear of Crime

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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As fear of crime has grown in society, it has become of increasing concern for criminologists, policy makers, politicians, police and the media. This book traces the historical emergence of the fear of crime concept, addresses the issue of fear of crime and political rationality, and analyses fear of crime as a tactic or technique of government. It is essential reading on one of the key issues in government and politics in contemporary society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781843921745
• ISBN-10: 184392174X
• Artikelnr.: 23237614

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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