Crime, Risk and Insecurity: Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780415243445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str.

Tim Hope; Richard Sparks

Opis

Just what is the fear of crime and how does it impact upon the lives of the citizens of late modern societies? These are topical questions in an era when politicians compete to diagnose and respond to our worries, when newspapers are sold on the hook of our anxieties and when fortunes are made promoting the latest security technology for the home and the high street. How can the social sciences contribute to this part of the self-understanding of our times? This book presents empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living and as key themes in the culture and politics of contemporary western societies. The volume includes contributions from distinguished social researchers from Britain, the United States, Germany and Italy and should be of interest to academics and students in the areas of criminology and sociology.

Spis treści

Introduction: risk, insecurity and the politics of law and order Tim Hope and Richard Sparks PART ONE: 'Private Troubles':risk, crime and everyday life 1. Victims R US: the life history of 'fear of crime' and the politicization of violence Elizabeth A. Stanko 2. The role of anxiety in fear of crime Tony Jefferson and Wendy Hollway 3. Trust and the problem of community in the inner city Sandra Walklate 4. After Success?:anxieties of affluence in an English village Ian Loader, Evi Girling and Richard Sparks 5. Inequality and the clubbing of private security Tim Hope 6. 'No more happy endings'?: the media and popular concern about crime since the Second World War Robert Reiner, Sonia Livingstone and Jessica Allen PART TWO: 'Public issues': perspectives on risk and penal politics Richard Sparks 8. Social conflict and the micro-physics of crime: the experience of the Emilia Romagna Citta Sicure project Dario Melossi and Rossella Selmini 9. Criminal victimization and social adaptation in modernity: fear of crime and risk perception in the new Germany Uwe Ewald 10. The pursuit of security Lucia Zedner 11. Some day our prince will come: zero tolerance policing and liberal government Kevin Stenson 12. William Horton's long shadow: 'punitiveness' and 'managerialism' in the penal politics of Massachusetts, 1988-1999 Theodore Sasson

O autorze

Tim Hope are both Professors in Criminology at the Department of Criminology, Keele University.