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Public Insecurities About Crime: A Review of the British Research LiteratureJonathan JacksonLondon School of Economics & Political Science: Department of Methodology Stephen FarrallUniversity of Sheffield Mike HoughSouth Bank University Ben BradfordUniversity of Oxford - Centre for Criminology November 18, 2008 Jackson, J., Farrall, S., Hough, M. and Bradford, B. (2009). ‘Public insecurities about crime: A review of the British research literature’, in Jokinen, A., Ruuskanen, E., Yordanova, M., Markov, D. and Ilcheva, M. (eds.), Review of Need: Indicators of Public Confidence in Criminal Justice for Policy Abstract: This paper reviews the British research literature on fear of crime. Organised in three sections, the review begins with an analysis of how fear of crime has been variously been defined and measured. The second section outlines (a) levels of fear of crime and (b) trends and trajectories over the past few decades. The third examines the various explanations put forward for the roots and dynamics of public insecurities about crime.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 18 Keywords: fear of crime, survey measurement, vulnerability, risk perception, social perception, disorder JEL Classification: I00 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: November 19, 2008 ; Last revised: March 11, 2013Suggested CitationContact Information
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