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Signal Crimes - Social Reactions to Crime, Disorder, and Control (Hardcover)
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Signal Crimes - Social Reactions to Crime, Disorder, and Control (Hardcover)
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How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime,
disorder, and social control events? How do such incidents shape
the contours of social order and the make-up of society? Why do
some crimes and disorders matter more than others in influencing
how we think, feel, and act about our security? These are the
questions that lie at the heart of Signal Crimes: Social Reactions
to Crime, Disorder, and Control. Signal Crimes brings together the
key insights and findings from a ten-year programme of fieldwork
investigating the concept of a 'signal crime': an incident that
changes how people think, feel and behave about their safety due to
it functioning as a signal of the presence of wider risks and
threats. Presenting ground-breaking new perspectives on social
reactions to crime, Signal Crimes innovatively and rigorously
examines how and why particular events trigger certain forms of
reaction, and how these unfold and develop across social space and
time. This includes detailed studies of: how fear travels within
and across communities in the aftermath of criminal homicides; the
ways rumours impact upon what we think about the prevalence and
distribution of crime; the extent to which some individuals and
neighbourhoods are vulnerable to being harmed more by disorder than
others; how the conduct of counter-terrorism has been altered in
recent years by the institutional effects of a number of signal
events; and the ways in which social control interventions are used
to communicate messages to public audiences. Through examination of
these diverse issues and using a range of both historical and
contemporary sources, the author reveals how our individual and
collective responses to problematic behaviour are organised. If a
perspective constitutes a way of seeing, then the signal crimes
perspective provides a new set of optics for how we see the impacts
of crime, disorder, and control. Showcasing the development of this
new concept, Signal Crimes argues for a radical and challenging
understanding of how we think not only about the crime, but also
about the ways in which we perceive and react to such problematic
and troubling acts.
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