Fear of crime : critical voices in an age of anxiety / edited by Murray Lee and Stephen Farrall - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2009 - xi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Criticial voices in an age of anxiety : a reintroduction to the fear of crime / Stephen Farrall & Murray Lee -- The'moral panic' that wasn't : the sixties crime issue in the US / Dennis Loo -- The enumeration of anxiety : power, knowledge and fear of crime / Murray Lee -- Critical geopolitics and everyday fears / Susan Smith & Rachel Pain -- Preventing indeterminate threats : fear, terror and the politics of preemption / Leanne Weber & Murray Lee -- Being feared : masculinity and race in public space / Kristen Day -- Untangling the web : deceptive responding in fear of crime research / Robbie Sutton & Stephen Farrall -- Anxiety, defensiveness and the fear of crime / David Gadd & Tony Jefferson -- Bridging the social and the psychological in the fear of crime / Jonathan Jackson -- State-trait anxiety and fear of crime : a social psychological perspective / Derek A. Chadee, Nikiesha J. Virgil & Jason Ditton -- Revisiting fear of crime in Bondi and Marrickville : sense of community and perceptions of safety / Mike Enders & Christine Jennett with Marian Tulloch -- Critical voices in an age of anxiety : ending with the identification of where to begin / Murray Lee & Stephen Farrall

9780415436915 RM156.74 0415436915 9780415436922 (pbk.) 0415436923 (pbk.)


Fear of crime
Victims of crimes
Criminology--Political aspects