Crime, risk, and insecurity : law and order in everyday life and political discourse / edited by Tim Hope and Richard Sparks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: risk, insecurity and the politics of law and order 1 -- TIM HOPE AND RICHARD SPARKS PART 1 -- Private troubles: risk, crime and everyday life 11 --1 Victims R Us: the life history of 'fear of crime' and the politicisation of violence 13 -- ELIZABETH A. STANKO 2 The role of anxiety in fear of crime 31 -- TONY JEFFERSON AND WENDY HOLLWAY 3 Trust and the problem of community in the inner city 50 -- SANDRA WALKLATE 4 After success? Anxieties of affluence in an. English village 65 -- IAN LOADER, EVI GIRLING AND RICHARD SPARKS --5 Inequality and the clubbing of private security 83 -- TIM HOPE --6 No more happy endings? The media and popular concern about crime since the Second World War 107 -- ROBERT REINER, SONIA LIVINGSTONE AND JESSICA ALLEN PART 2 -- Public issues: the new politics of order 127 --7 Perspectives on risk and penal politics 129 -- RICHARD SPARKS 8 Social conflict and the microphysics of crime: the experience of the Emilia-Romagna Citta sicure project 146 -- DARIO MELOSSI AND ROSSELLA SELMINI 9 Criminal victimisation and social adaptation in modernity: -- fear of crime and risk perception in the new Germany 166 -- UWE EWALD 10 The pursuit of security 200 -- LUCIA ZEDNER 11 Some day our prince will come: zero-tolerance policing and liberal government 215 -- KEVIN STENSON 12 William Horton's long shadow: 'punitiveness' and 'managerialism' in the penal politics of Massachusetts, -- 1988-99 238 -- THEODORE SASSON Notes 252 -- Index 268.