Whom Can You Trust? The Politics of ‘Grassing’ on an Inner City Housing Estate
- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Review
- Vol. 44 (3) , 361-380
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1996.tb00428.x
Abstract
This paper derives from an ongoing research project concerned to explore how people living in, going to work in, attending school in, high crime areas manage their routine daily lives. It focuses on one of our research areas in which we argue that the question of the ‘fear of crime’ is much better understood through an appreciation of how the question of trust manifests itself in that community. In other words, whom you trust, when, and by how much, mediate the way in which people living in this area manage their routine daily lives and within that their sense of security.Keywords
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