Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, police, the media and the general public. For many practitioners reducing fear of crime has become almost as important an issue as reducing crime itself. The identification of fear of crime as a serious policy problem has given rise to a massive amount of research activity, political discussion and intellectual debate.
Despite this activity, actually reducing levels of fear of crime has proved difficult. Even in recent years...
Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, poli...
This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical discussion of contemporary and emerging modes of mediatized police work, Lee and McGovern demonstrate how the police engage with the public through a fluid and quickly expanding assemblage of communications and information technologies.
"Policing and Media" explores the rationalities that are driving police/media relations and asks; how these relationships differ (or not) from the ways they have operated...
This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they c...
This book explores young people's practices and perceptions of sexting and how sexting has been represented and responded to by the media, education campaigns, and the law. It analyses the important broader socio-legal issues raised by sexting and the appropriateness of current responses.
This book explores young people's practices and perceptions of sexting and how sexting has been represented and responded to by the media, education c...
