Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of graphs -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Histories of fear of crime -- 1 Fear of crime before 'fear of crime?' -- 2 'Hot under the collar': the garrotting moral panic of the 1860s -- 3 The discovery of fear of crime in the U.K. -- 4 The ebbs and flows of anxiety: how emotional responses to crime and disorder influenced social policy in the U.K. into the twenty-first century -- PART II Mediating fear of crime -- 5 Fear the monster!: racialised violence, sovereign power and the thin blue line -- 6 After the culture of fear: fear of crime in the United States half a century on -- 7 Fear 2.0: worry about cybercrime in England and Wales -- 8 Beyond moral panic: young people and fear of crime -- 9 Nothing to fear but fear itself?: liquid provocations for new media and fear of crime -- PART III Methodologies and conceptual debates -- 10 A construal-level approach to the fear of crime -- 11 Qualifying fear of crime: multi-methods approaches -- 12 Visual methods in research on fear of crime: a critical assessment -- 13 The perils of 'uncertainty' for fear of crime research in the twenty-first century -- PART IV Dissecting and stratifying fear of crime -- 14 Crime and the fear of Muslims -- 15 Gender, violence and the fear of crime: women as fearing subjects? -- 16 Discovering 'the enemy within': the state, fear and criminology -- PART V Law, regulation and policing the fear of crime -- 17 In the eye of the (motivated) beholder: towards a motivated cognition perspective on disorder perceptions -- 18 Countering fears of terrorism: policing and community relations -- 19 Do police officers fear crime in the same way as the population?: results of a local police survey on insecurity and fear of crime in Switzerland.

20 Policing, performance indicators and fear of crime -- 21 Curating risk, selling safety?: fear of crime, responsibilisation and the surveillance school economy -- PART VI Contexts and geographies of fear of crime -- 22 Removing fear of crime: the role of regulation in creating safer spaces for sex workers -- 23 Fear and insecurity in Latin America -- 24 Fear of crime and overall anxieties in rural areas: the case of Sweden -- 25 Additive and synergistic perceived risk of crime: a multilevel longitudinal study in Peru -- 26 Punitive populism and fear of crime in Central America -- 27 Research on fear of crime in China -- PART VII Connecting fear of crime: new approaches and ways forward -- 28 How to break a rape culture: gendered fear of crime and the myth of the stranger-rapist -- 29 Becoming feared: fashioning and projecting the violent self -- 30 The fear drop -- 31 "Hyphenated fears" and "camouflaged" responses: fear of crime, war and militarism -- Conclusion: Advancing fear of crime? Emergent themes and new directions -- Index.

Drawing on over fifty years of research, this book brings together original contributions and offers a state of the art collection of theoretical, empirical, policy-related scholarship on the intersection of fear of crime, victimisation, vulnerability and risk.

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