Experience and Expression: Social and Cultural Significance in the Fear of Crime

This paper argues that to ignore the social meaning that constitutes public perceptions of crime is to offer a shallow picture of the fear of crime - and survey research need not do either. Examining the symbolic links between community cohesion, disorder and crime, this study suggests that percepti...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:  
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. VerfasserIn: Jackson, Jonathan 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2004
In: The British journal of criminology
Jahr: 2004, Band: 44, Heft: 6, Seiten: 946-966
Journals Online & Print:
Lade...
Verfügbarkeit prüfen: HBZ Gateway
Schlagwörter:
Kriminalitätseinschätzung
Kriminalitätsfurcht
Soziale Einstellungen
Werte
Vulnerabilität
Kriminalität
Methodenfragen
Gemeinde
Soziale Desorganisation
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:This paper argues that to ignore the social meaning that constitutes public perceptions of crime is to offer a shallow picture of the fear of crime - and survey research need not do either. Examining the symbolic links between community cohesion, disorder and crime, this study suggests that perceptions of risk are explicably situated in individuals' understandings of the social and physical make-up of their neighbourhood, as well as vulnerability and broader social attitudes and values. Furthermore, an explanation is offered for recent research that suggests that the prevalence of fear of crime has been exaggerated. Namely, survey responses may articulate both experienced' fear - summations of the frequency of emotion - and expressive' fear, or attitudes regarding the cultural meaning of crime, social change and relations, and conditions conducive to crime
ISSN:0007-0955