Social Order and the Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times

• Offers a new model for analysing the fear of crime that distinguishes between those who say they fear crime from those who actually experience it
• Builds upon the methodological work carried out by the authors which concludes that the results of fear of crime surveys may be a function of the way the topic is researched
• Combines quantitative data from the British crime Survey with new, theoretically informed questions to alter what we know about the fear of crime
• Critically reviews the findings of over 35 years of research into public attitudes on crime
• Examines the different social attitudes and backgrounds of those who fear crime and explores whether there is more than one social norm of the fear of crime

Readership: Criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, policy makers, government, political scientists and police practitioners.

Stephen D. Farrall, Reader in Criminology, Centre for Criminological Research, Sheffield University, Jonathan Jackson, Lecturer in Research Methodology at the Methodology Institute, London School of Economics, and Emily Gray, Research Fellow in the Institute of Law, Politics and Justice at the University of Keele

"The authors succeed where European criminology seldom does, a meeting and fusion of elaborate theoretical views and extremely valuable empirical methodology. Therefore this work has to be viewed as exemplary." - Helmut Hirtenlehner, Monatsschrift fur Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform (0026-9301), 93 (5)

Part I
1: Introduction
2: The Provenance of Fear
3: What is the Fear of Crime? A Rhetorical Question with No One Clear Answer
4: Theorising the Fear of Crime: The Cultural and Social Significance of Insecurity
Part II
5: Conversations about Crime, Place and Community
6: Types and Intensities of Fear
7: Experience and Expression in the Fear of Crime
Part III
8: The Anxieties of Affluence
Methodological Appendix