Contents

Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Introduction

 

PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIELD

1 Frank F. Furstenberg jr (1971), 'Public Reaction to Crime in the Streets', American Scholar, 40, pp.601-10.

2 Richard Block (1993), 'A Cross-National Comparison of Victims of Crime: Victim Surveys of Twelve Countries', International Review of Victimology, 2, pp.183-207.

 

PART II: THE CAUSES OF VULNERABILITY

3 Carol Brooks Gardner (1990), 'Safe Conduct: Women, Crime, and Self in Public Places', Social Problems, 37, pp.311-28.

4 Jo Goodey (1997), 'Boys Don't Cry: Masculinities, Fear of Crime and Fearlessness', British Journal of Criminology, 37, pp.401-18.

5 Randy L. LaGrange and Kenneth F. Ferraro (1987), 'The Elderly's Fear of Crime: A Critical Examination of the Research', Research on Aging, 9, pp.372-91.

6 Gertrude L. Moeller (1989), 'Fear of Criminal Victimization: The Effect of Neighborhood Racial Composition', Sociological Inquiry, 59, pp.209-21.

7 Oscar Newman and Karen A. Franck (1982), 'The Effects of Building Size on Personal Crime and Fear of Crime', Population and Environment, 5, pp.203-20.

8 Wesley G. Skogan, (1987), 'The Impact of Victimization on Fear', Crime & Delinquency, 33, pp.135-54.

 

PART III: THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON VICTIMIZATION

9 Mary Holland Baker, Barbara C. Nienstedt, Ronald S. Everett and Richard McCleary (1983), 'The Impact of a Crime Wave: Perceptions, Fear, and Confidence in the Police', Law and Society Review, 17, pp.319-35.

10 George Gerbner and Larry Gross (1976), 'Living With Television: The Violence Profile', Journal of Communication, Spring, pp.173-99

11 Anthony N. Doob and Glenn E. Macdonald (1979), 'Television Viewing and Fear of Victimization: Is the Relationship Causal?', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, pp. 17-79.

2 Linda Heath and John Petraitis (1987), 'Television Viewing and Fear of Crime: Where Is the Mean World?', Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 8, pp.97-123.

13 Allen E. Liska and William Baccaglini (1990), 'Feeling Safe by Comparison: Crime in the Newspapers', Social Problems, 37, pp. 36-74.

14 Paul Williams and Julie Dickinson (1993), 'Fear of Crime: Read All About It? The Relationship between Newspaper Crime Reporting and Fear of Crime', British Journal of Criminology, 33, pp.33-56.

 

PART IV: THE METHODS OF SURVEYING

15 Kenneth F. Ferraro and Randy LaGrange (1987), 'The Measurement of Fear of Crime', Sociological Inquiry, 57, pp. 7-101.

16 James W. Croake and Dennis E. Hinkle (1976), 'Methodological Problems in the Study of Fears', Journal of Psychology, 93, pp.197-202.

17 Martin Killias (1990), 'New Methodological Perspectives for Victimization Surveys: The Potentials of Computer-Assisted Telephone Surveys and Some Related Innovations', International Review of Victimology, 1, pp.153-67.

18 Anne L. Schneider (1981), 'Methodological Problems in Victim Surveys and their Implications for Research in Victimology', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 72, pp.818-38.

 

PART V: THEORETICAL MODELS OF EXPLANATION

19 Ralph B. Taylor and Margaret Hale (1986), 'Criminology: Testing Alternative Models of Fear of Crime', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 77, pp.151-89.

20 Adri van der Wurff, Leendert van Staalduinen and Peter Stringer (1989), 'Fear of Crime in Residential Environments: Testing a Social Psychological Model', Journal of Social Psychology, 129, pp.14160.

21 Vincent F. Sacco and William Glackman (1987), 'Vulnerability, Locus of Control, and Worry about Crime', Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 6, pp.99-111.

22 Ralph B. Taylor, Stephen D. Gottfredson and Sidney Brower (1984), 'Block Crime and Fear: Defensible Space, Local Social Ties, and Territorial Functioning', Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 21, pp.303-31.

 

PART VI: POLICIES TO REDUCE FEAR

23 Patricia Allatt (1984), 'Fear of Crime: The Effect of Improved Residential Security on a Difficult To Let Estate', The Howard Journal, 23, pp.170-82.

24 Trevor Bennett (1991). 'The Effectiveness of a Police-Initiated Fear-Reducing Strategy', British Journal of Cniminology, 31. pp.1-14.

25 Jeffrey Henig and Michael G. Maxfield (1978), 'Reducing Fear of Crime: Strategies for Intervention', Victimology: An International Journal, 3, pp.297-313.

26 Dan A. Lewis and Greta Salem (1981), 'Community Crime Prevention: An Analysis of a Developing Strategy', Crime & Delinquency, July, pp.405-21

27 Gwyneth Nair, Jason Ditton and Samuel Phillips (1993), 'Environmental Improvements and the Fear of Crime: The Sad Case of the "Pond" Area in Glasgow', British Journal of Criminology, 33, pp. 555-61.

 

PART VII: THE FUTURE?

28 Jason Ditton, Jon Bannister, Elizabeth Gilchrist and Stephen Farrall (1999). 'Afraid or Angry'? Recalibrating the "Fear" of Crime'. International Review of Victimology, 6, pp.83-99.