In Western languages those affected by crime are universally labelled as 'victims', meaning
the sacrificed ones. According to the author this practice seems to originate from the …

Crime victimization is an important cause of political participation. Analysis of survey data
from five continents shows that individuals who report recent crime victimization participate …

Since the very beginnings of research on the fear of crime in the early 1970s, authors have
emphasized the need for theoretical clarification of the meaning and measurement of the …

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern
for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, police, the media and the …

We present evidence that males are more tolerant of sex crimes than females. We exploit a
natural experiment, in which a firm's executive rapes a nine-year-old girl. Based on …

This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of
mainstream criminology, including both liberal criminology and administrative criminology. It …

This book provides a lucid and highly acclaimed introduction to gender issues in crime and
criminal justice, central to any understanding of crime and criminal justice policy and …

A recent article in this journal, Dolan et al.(2005) provided a methodology for estimating the
intangible costs (or losses in quality of life) from violent crime. Here, we develop that …

Thefear of crime'has, in the past three decades or so, developed as an important area of
criminological research and inquiry. Debates have proliferated within and outside of the …

Britain has seen very substantial public and private investment in open-street closed circuit
television surveillance in the 1990s. Part of the justification for this has been the assumed …