With the growing awareness of many critics of risk society, the culture of fear and the dangerous rising levels of unhealthy fear around individual, group, and
Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the histori
Fear of Crime in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Contradictions examines the nature and extent of crime-related fear. The authors describe and eval
The fear of crime has been recognized as an important social problem, affecting a significant number of people. In this book, the authors review the findings fr
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