Place, social relations and the fear of crime: a review
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- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Progress in Human Geography
- Vol. 24 (3) , 365-387
- https://doi.org/10.1191/030913200701540474
Abstract
This article reviews the literature on fear of crime of interest to the geographical and environmental disciplines. After discussing definitional and methodological issues, the article focuses on accounts which link fear with the physical environment, and then on fear, social identity and exclusion. It considers the significance of one area of recent research that attempts to link place and social relations through developing local ethnographies of fear. The review concludes with some suggestions for building upon this work, and highlights the relevance of the geographical themes discussed to current policy debates.Keywords
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