Format:
1 Online-Ressource (583 pages)
ISBN:
9781351544634
Series Statement:
International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology v.44
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD -- 1 Public Reaction to Crime in the Streets -- 2 A Cross-National Comparison of Victims of Crime: Victim Surveys of Twelve Countries -- PART II THE CAUSES OF VULNERABILITY -- 3 Safe Conduct: Women, Crime, and Self in Public Places -- 4 Boys Don't Cry: Masculinities, Fear of Crime and Fearlessness -- 5 The Elderly's Fear of Crime: A Critical Examination of the Research -- 6 Fear of Criminal Victimization: The Effect of Neighborhood Racial Composition -- 7 The Effects of Building Size on Personal Crime and Fear of Crime -- 8 The Impact of Victimization on Fear -- PART III THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON VICTIMIZATION -- 9 The Impact of a Crime Wave: Perceptions, Fear, and Confidence in the Police -- 10 Living With Television: The Violence Profile -- 11 Television Viewing and Fear of Victimization: Is the Relationship Causal? -- 12 Television Viewing and Fear of Crime: Where Is the Mean World? -- 13 Feeling Safe by Comparison: Crime in the Newspapers -- 14 Fear of Crime: Read All About It? The Relationship between Newspaper Crime Reporting and Fear of Crime -- PART IV THE METHODS OF SURVEYING -- 15 The Measurement of Fear of Crime -- 16 Methodological Problems in the Study of Fears -- 17 New Methodological Perspectives for Victimization Surveys: The Potentials of Computer-Assisted Telephone Surveys and Some Related Innovations -- 18 Methodological Problems in Victim Surveys and their Implications for Research in Victimology -- PART V THEORETICAL MODELS OF EXPLANATION -- 19 Criminology: Testing Alternative Models of Fear of Crime -- 20 Fear of Crime in Residential Environments: Testing a Social Psychological Model -- 21 Vulnerability, Locus of Control, and Worry about Crime
Content:
22 Block Crime and Fear: Defensible Space, Local Social Ties, and Territorial Functioning -- PART VI POLICIES TO REDUCE FEAR -- 23 Fear of Crime: The Effect of Improved Residential Security on a Difficult To Let Estate -- 24 The Effectiveness of a Police-Initiated Fear-Reducing Strategy -- 25 Reducing Fear of Crime: Strategies for Intervention -- 26 Community Crime Prevention: An Analysis of a Developing Strategy -- 27 Environmental Improvements and the Fear of Crime: The Sad Case of the "Pond" Area in Glasgow -- PART VII THE FUTURE? -- 28 Afraid or Angry? Recalibrating the "Fear" of Crime -- Name Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781840140637
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ditton, Jason The Fear of Crime Florence : Taylor and Francis,c2000 ISBN 9781840140637
Language:
English
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