Jackson, Jonathan 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2426-2219
(2006)
Introducing fear of crime to risk research.
Risk Analysis, 26 (1).
pp. 253-264.
ISSN 0272-4332
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Abstract
This paper introduces the fear of crime to risk research, noting a number of areas for future interdisciplinary study. First, the paper analyses the career of the concept of fear of crime and the politics of fear. Second, it considers research and theory on the psychology of risk, and particularly a risk as image perspective and interplay between emotion and cognition. Third, it speculates how people learn about risk and suggests how to customise a Social Amplification of Risk Framework to fear of crime. Finally, the paper argues that fear of crime may be an individual response to community social order and a generalised attitude toward the moral trajectory of society. Each of these areas of discussion has implications for future theoretical developments within risk research; each highlights how risk research can contribute to the social scientific understanding of an important issue of the day.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0272-4332 |
| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an Article published in Risk Analysis 26 (1), 253-264 © 2006 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com. LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (<http://eprints.lse.ac.uk>) of the LSE Research Online website. |
| Divisions: | Methodology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/805 |
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