Book of Donmon Teith

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, poli

The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a "discurse of fear" - the awareness and expection that danger and risk are

Why is fear of crime so rife in society today? The government and media have ploughed money and resources into surveys and initiatives to find out. As a concept

Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Studies of the fear of crime have constituted what is undeniably the fastest growing research area within criminology in the last decade and this shows no sign