Signal crimes : social reactions to crime, disorder, and control /
Drawing upon a ten-year program of fieldwork research, Signal Crimes presents the results from a series of inter-linked empirical studies that have resulted in the concept of a 'signal crime,' an incident that changes how people think, feel and behave about their safety due to their action...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- A signal crimes perspective
- Why disorder matters: reading urban situations
- How fear travels: the private, parochial, and public harm footprints of criminal homicides
- The crimes that were not there: 'soft facts' and the causes and consequences of crime rumours
- The long shadow of the Twin Towers and the 'new' counter-terrorism: a case study of the institutional effects of signal crimes
- Control signals
- An afterword on method: "Gonzo research' and the uses of systematic and unsystematic social observation.