The Fear on Crime Book

	Acknowledgements
	Series Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	An Overview of the Field
1	Public Reaction to Crime in the Streets	3
2	A Cross-National Comparison of Victims of Crime: Victim Surveys of Twelve Countries	13
Pt. II	The Causes of Vulnerability
3	Safe Conduct: Women, Crime, and Self in Public Places	41
4	Boys Don't Cry: Masculinities, Fear of Crime and Fearlessness	59
5	The Elderly's Fear of Crime: A Critical Examination of the Research	77
6	Fear of Criminal Victimization: The Effect of Neighborhood Racial Composition	97
7	The Effects of Building Size on Personal Crime and Fear of Crime	111
8	The Impact of Victimization on Fear	129
Pt. III	The Sources of Information on Victimization
9	The Impact of a Crime Wave: Perceptions, Fear, and Confidence in the Police	151
10	Living With Television: The Violence Profile	169
11	Television Viewing and Fear of Victimization: Is the Relationship Causal?	197
12	Television Viewing and Fear of Crime: Where Is the Mean World?	207
13	Feeling Safe by Comparison: Crime in the Newspapers	235
14	Fear of Crime: Read All About It? The Relationship between Newspaper Crime Reporting and Fear of Crime	251
Pt. IV	The Methods of Surveying
15	The Measurement of Fear of Crime	277
16	Methodological Problems in the Study of Fears	309
17	New Methodological Perspectives for Victimization Surveys: The Potentials of Computer-Assisted Telephone Surveys and Some Related Innovations	315
18	Methodological Problems in Victim Surveys and their Implications for Research in Victimology	331
Pt. V	Theoretical Models of Explanation
19	Criminology: Testing Alternative Models for Fear of Crime	355
20	Fear of Crime in Residential Environments: Testing a Social Psychological Model	395
21	Vulnerability, Locus of Control, and Worry about Crime	415
22	Block Crime and Fear: Defensible Space, Local Social Ties, and Territorial Fuctioning	429
Pt. VI	Policies to Reduce Fear
23	Fear of Crime: The Effect of Improved Residential Security on a Difficult To Let Estate	461
24	The Effectiveness of a Police-Initiated Fear-Reducing Strategy	475
25	Reducing Fear of Crime: Strategies for Intervention	489
26	Community Crime Prevention: An Analysis of a Developing Strategy	507
27	Environmental Improvements and the Fear of Crime: The Sad Case of the "Pond" Area in Glasgow	525
Pt. VII	The Future?
28	Afraid or Angry? Recalibrating the "Fear" of Crime	535
	Name Index	553