Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety / Edition 1

Bringing together a collection of new and cutting edge articles from key scholars in criminology, challenges many assumptions which remain submerged in attempts to measure and attribute cause to crime fear. But, in questioning the orthodoxy of 'fear of crime' models, along with inquiries that have supposed that fear is objectively quantifiable and measurable, the articles collected here also offer new paradigms and methods of inquiry for approaching 'fear of crime'.