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Crime, Risk and Insecurity Tim Hope

Crime, Risk and Insecurity By Tim Hope

Crime, Risk and Insecurity by Tim Hope

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Summary

This book presents new empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear, anxiety, risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living and as key themes in the culture and politics of contemporary western societies.

Crime, Risk and Insecurity Summary

Crime, Risk and Insecurity: Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse by Tim Hope

Risk is still a popular topic in the social sciences generally and is becoming a central issue in criminology

Includes contributors from a selection of eminent criminologists from Britain, the USA and continental Europe

Feeds into the 'fear of crime' debate which has a high profile in the tabloid press

About Tim Hope

Tim Hope are both Professors in Criminology at the Department of Criminology, Keele University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: risk, insecurity and the politics of law and order Tim Hope and Richard Sparks PART ONE: 'Private Troubles':risk, crime and everyday life 1. Victims R US: the life history of 'fear of crime' and the politicization of violence Elizabeth A. Stanko 2. The role of anxiety in fear of crime Tony Jefferson and Wendy Hollway 3. Trust and the problem of community in the inner city Sandra Walklate 4. After Success?:anxieties of affluence in an English village Ian Loader, Evi Girling and Richard Sparks 5. Inequality and the clubbing of private security Tim Hope 6. 'No more happy endings'?: the media and popular concern about crime since the Second World War Robert Reiner, Sonia Livingstone and Jessica Allen PART TWO: 'Public issues': perspectives on risk and penal politics Richard Sparks 8. Social conflict and the micro-physics of crime: the experience of the Emilia Romagna Citta Sicure project Dario Melossi and Rossella Selmini 9. Criminal victimization and social adaptation in modernity: fear of crime and risk perception in the new Germany Uwe Ewald 10. The pursuit of security Lucia Zedner 11. Some day our prince will come: zero tolerance policing and liberal government Kevin Stenson 12. William Horton's long shadow: 'punitiveness' and 'managerialism' in the penal politics of Massachusetts, 1988-1999 Theodore Sasson

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GOR013785073
9780415243445
0415243440
Crime, Risk and Insecurity: Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse by Tim Hope
Tim Hope
Used - Like New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000-11-16
288
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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