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 when many western
nations have experienced reductions in the levels of reported
crime, fear of crime has often proven intractable. The result has
been the development of what amounts to a fear of crime industry.
Previous studies have identified conceptual challenges, theoretical
cul-de-sacs and methodological problems with the use of the concept
fear of crime. Yet it has endured as both an organizing principal
for a body of research and a term to describe a social malady. This
provocative, wide ranging book asks how and why fear of crime
retains this cultural, political and social scientific currency
despite concerted criticism of its utility? It subjects the concept
to rigorous critical scrutiny taking examples from the UK, North
America and Australia.
Part One of Inventing Fear of Crime traces the historical
emergence of the fear of crime concept, while Part Two addresses
the issue of fear of crime and political rationality, and analyses
fear of crime as a tactic or technique of government. This book
will be essential reading on one of the key issues in government
and politics in contemporary society.
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