The notion of the fear of crime has become as important as crime itself. This book analyses the emergence of the fear of crime as a meaningful concept in both s

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

This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black" referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased.

An attention to the 'fear of crime' has found its way into governmental interventions in crime prevention and into popular discourse with many newspapers, local