Fear of crime-- punitivity : new developments in theory and research /

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Corporate author / creator:European Society of Criminology. Conference (6th : 2006 : Tübingen, Germany)
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Bochum : Universitätsverlag Brockmeyer, 2008.
Description:xviii, 492 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Crime and crime policy Kriminalität und Kriminalpolitik, 1613-2459 ; v. 3
Kriminalität und Kriminalpolitik in Europa ; v. 3.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8295563
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Other authors / contributors:Kury, Helmut, 1941-
ISBN:9783819606953 (hbk.)
3819606955 (hbk.)
9783819606885 (pbk.)
3819606882 (pbk.)
Notes:Updated and revised papers presented at the conference.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Hans-Jürgen Kerner
  • Introduction / Helmut Kury
  • Researching everyday emotions : towards a multi-disciplinary investigation of the fear of crime / Emily Gray, Jonathan Jackson, Stephen Farrall
  • Fear of crime or fear of risk? Some considerations resulting from fear of crime studies and their political implications / Klaus Sessar
  • How to measure "fear of crime" in a valid and reliable way / Gabry Vanderveen
  • Measuring the fear of crime : how valid are the results? / Kelmut Kury, Joachim Obergfell-Fuchs
  • Spatial perception of unsafety, crime and disorder / Hendrien L. Kaal, Gabry N.G. Vanderveen, Moniek E. van Oeveren
  • Vulnerability : mediating the perceived risk - fear of victimization - linkage? Testing a transactional theory of fear of crime using data from Austria / Helmut Hirtenlehner
  • Disorder, social anxieties and fear of crime : exploring the relationship between incivilities and fear of crime with a special focus on generalized insecurities / Helmut Hirtenlehner
  • Fear of crime and victimisation : the Greek experience / Christina Zarafonitou
  • Social-demographic and social-psychological perspectives of fear of crime in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina / Gorazd Meško, Irma Kovčo-Vukadin, Elmedin Muratbegović
  • Disowning our shadow : a psychoanalytic approach to understanding punitive public attitudes / Shadd Maruna, Amanda Matravers, Anna King
  • Public opinion and community penalties / Shadd Maruna, Anna King
  • Political culture and incentives to penal populism / David A. Green
  • Methodological problems in measuring attitudes to punishment (punitivity) / Helmut Kury, Joachim Obergfell-Fuchs
  • "Punitivity" within the criminal justice system in Germany / Joachim Obergfell-Fuchs
  • Insecurity feelings and punitivity : relationship in a national sample of adolescents and young adults in Spain / Alfonso Serrano-Maillo, Helmut Kury
  • Perceptions, emotions and experiences of crime : effects on attitudes toward punishment in a Canadian sample / Timothy F. Hartnagel, Laura Templeton
  • Criminal policy based on fear of crime - case of Poland / Anna Kossowska, Irena Rzeplinska, Dagmara Wozniakowska, Witold Klaus
  • Problems associated with harsher sanctioning : trends in returning to more severe punishment in Japan / Toshio Yoshida
  • Which sentencing goals do victims of crime in Austria support? Impressions from an urban victim cohort / Helmut Hirtenlehner
  • Different perspectives, different gaps : does the general public demand a more responsive judge? / Henk Elffers, Jan W. de Keijser
  • Responsive but misunderstood : Dutch judges on their relation to society / Jan W. de Keijser, Henk Elffers, Henk G. van de Bunt.