Tim Hope, Richard Sparks

Crime, Risk and Insecurity

Law and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. The volume includes contributions from distinguished social researchers from Britain, the United States, Germany and Italy and will be of interest to academics and students in the areas of criminology and sociology.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780415243445
• ISBN-10: 0415243440
• Artikelnr.: 21135487

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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