The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime (Routledge International Handbooks)

The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime brings together original and international state of the art contributions of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of perceptions of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk. This is timely as fear of crime has now been a focus of scholarly and policy interest for some fifty years and shows little sign of abating. Research on fear of crime is demonstrative of the inter-disciplinarity of criminology, drawing in the disciplines of sociology, psychology, political science, history, cultural studies, gender studies, planning and architecture, philosophy and human geography. This collection draws in many of these interdisciplinary themes. This collections also extends the boundaries of fear of crime research. It does this both methodologically and conceptually, but perhaps more importantly it moves us beyond some of the often repeated debates in this field to focus on novel topics from unique perspectives. The book begins by plotting the history of fear of crime’s development, then moves on to investigate the methodological and theoretical debates that have ensued and the policy transfer that occurred across jurisdictions. Key elements in debates and research on fear of crime concerning gender, race and ethnicity are covered, as are contemporary themes in fear of crime research, such as regulation, security, risk and the fear of terrorism, the mapping of fear of crime and fear of crime beyond urban landscapes. The final sections of the book explore geographies of fear and future and unique directions for this research. Introduction -- Histories of fear of crime -- Fear of crime before "fear of crime" / Barry Godfrey -- "Hot under the collar" : the garrotting moral panic of the 1860's / Chas Critcher -- The discovery of fear of crime in the U.K. / Mike Hough -- The ebbs and flows of anxiety : how emotional responses to crime and disorder influenced social policy in the U.K. in the twenty-first century / Emily Gray -- Mediating fear of crime -- Fear the monster : racialised violence, sovereign power and the thin blue line / Travis Linnemann and Corina Medley -- After the culture of fear : fear of crime in the United States half a century on / Jonathan Simon -- Fear 2.0 : worry about cybercrime in England and Wales / Ian Brunton-Smith -- Beyond moral panic : young people and fear of crime / Kelly Richards and Murray Lee -- Nothing to fear but fear itself? : liquid provocations for new media and fear of crime / Jamie K. Wardman -- Methodologies and conceptual debates -- A construal-level approach to the fear of crime / Ioanna Gusetti -- Qualifying fear of crime : multi-methods approaches / Murray Lee and Justin R. Ellis -- Visual methods in research on fear of crime : a critical assessment / Gabry Vanderveen -- The perils of "uncertainty" for fear of crime research in the twenty-first century / Will McGowan -- Dissecting and Stratifying Fear of Crime -- Crime and the fear of Muslims / Scott Poynting -- Gender, violence and fear of crime : women as fearing subjects? / Sandra Walklate -- Discovering "the enemy within" : the state, fear and criminology / Karen Evans -- Law, regulation and policing the fear of crime -- In the eye of the (motivated) beholder : towards a motivated cognition perspective on disorder perceptions / Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, Ian Brunton-Smith and Emily Gray -- Countering the fears of terrorism : policing and community relations / Basia Spalek and Tracey Davanna -- Do police officers fear crime in the same way as the population? : results of a local police survey on insecurity and fear of crime in Switzerland / Christine Burkhardt, Natalia Delgrande and Partice Villettaz -- Policing, performance indicators and fear of crime / Alyce McGovern -- Curating risk, selling safety? : fear of crime, responsibilisation and the surveillance school economy / Emmeline Taylor -- Contexts and geographies of fear of crime -- Removing fear of crime : the role of regulation in creating safer spaces for sex workers / Teela Sanders and Lynzi Armstrong -- Fear and insecurity in Latin America / Lucía Dammert and Felipe Salazar -- Fear of crime and overall anxieties in rural areas : the case of Sweden / Vania Ceccato -- Additive and synergistic perceived risk of crime : a multilevel longitudinal study in Peru / Wilson Hernández -- Punitive populism and fear of crime in Central America / Sebastian Huhn -- Fear of crime research in China / Jianhong Liu and Shan Cui -- Connecting fear of crime : new approaches and ways forward -- How to break a rape culture : gendered fear of crime and the myth of the stranger-rapist / Alex Fanghangel -- Becoming feared : fashioning and projecting the violent self / Mark Halsey -- The fear drop / Marnix Eysnick Smeets and Pim Foekens -- "Hyphenated fears" and "camouflaged" responses : fear of crime, war and militarism / Ross McGarry -- Conclusion Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of figures 10 List of tables 12 List of graphs 13 List of contributors 14 Introduction 22 PART I Histories of fear of crime 26 1 Fear of crime before ‘fear of crime?’ 28 2 ‘Hot under the collar’: the garrotting moral panic of the 1860s 41 3 The discovery of fear of crime in the U.K. 56 4 The ebbs and flows of anxiety: how emotional responses to crime and disorder influenced social policy in the U.K. into the twenty-first century 68 PART II Mediating fear of crime 84 5 Fear the monster!: racialised violence, sovereign power and the thin blue line 86 6 After the culture of fear: fear of crime in the United States half a century on 103 7 Fear 2.0: worry about cybercrime in England and Wales 114 8 Beyond moral panic: young people and fear of crime 127 9 Nothing to fear but fear itself?: liquid provocations for new media and fear of crime 142 PART III Methodologies and conceptual debates 156 10 A construal-level approach to the fear of crime 158 11 Qualifying fear of crime: multi-methods approaches 176 12 Visual methods in research on fear of crime: a critical assessment 191 13 The perils of ‘uncertainty’ for fear of crime research in the twenty-first century 211 PART IV Dissecting and stratifying fear of crime 226 14 Crime and the fear of Muslims 228 15 Gender, violence and the fear of crime: women as fearing subjects? 243 16 Discovering ‘the enemy within’: the state, fear and criminology 257 PART V Law, regulation and policing the fear of crime 272 17 In the eye of the (motivated) beholder: towards a motivated cognition perspective on disorder perceptions 274 18 Countering fears of terrorism: policing and community relations 293 19 Do police officers fear crime in the same way as the population?: results of a local police survey on insecurity and fear of crime in Switzerland 303 20 Policing, performance indicators and fear of crime 320 21 Curating risk, selling safety?: fear of crime, responsibilisation and the surveillance school economy 333 PART VI Contexts and geographies of fear of crime 344 22 Removing fear of crime: the role of regulation in creating safer spaces for sex workers 346 23 Fear and insecurity in Latin America 360 24 Fear of crime and overall anxieties in rural areas: the case of Sweden 375 25 Additive and synergistic perceived risk of crime: a multilevel longitudinal study in Peru 389 26 Punitive populism and fear of crime in Central America 409 27 Research on fear of crime in China 424 PART VII Connecting fear of crime: new approaches and ways forward 436 28 How to break a rape culture: gendered fear of crime and the myth of the stranger-rapist 438 29 Becoming feared: fashioning and projecting the violent self 450 30 The fear drop 467 31 “Hyphenated fears” and “camouflaged” responses: fear of crime, war and militarism 488 Conclusion: Advancing fear of crime? Emergent themes and new directions 505 Index 512 "The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime brings together original and international state of the art contributions of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of perceptions of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk. This is timely as fear of crime has now been a focus of scholarly and policy interest for some fifty years and shows little sign of abating. Research on fear of crime is demonstrative of the inter-disciplinarily of criminology, drawing in the disciplines of sociology, psychology, political science, history, cultural studies, gender studies, planning and architecture, philosophy and human geography. This collection draws in many of these interdisciplinary themes. This collections also extends the boundaries of fear of crime research. It does this both methodologically and conceptually, but perhaps more importantly it moves us beyond some of the often repeated debates in this field to focus on novel topics from unique perspectives. The book begins by plotting the history of fear of crime’s development and then moves on to investigate the methodological and theoretical debates that have ensued, and the policy transfer that occurred across jurisdictions. Key elements in debates and research on fear of crime concerning gender, race and ethnicity are covered, as are contemporary themes in fear of crime research, such as regulation, security, risk and the fear of terrorism, the mapping of fear of crime, fear of crime beyond urban landscapes. The final sections of the book explore geographies of fear and future and unique directions for this research. "--Provided by publisher Drawing on over fifty years of research, this book brings together original contributions and offers a state of the art collection of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of fear of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk