This article reviews the literature on fear of crime of interest to the geographical and
environmental disciplines. After discussing definitional and methodological issues, the …

In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year,
twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is …

In ethnic and racial terms, America is growing rapidly more diverse. Yet attempts to extend
racial threat hypotheses to today's immigrants have generated inconsistent results. This …

Early on in the discovery of fear of crime as a phenomenon sha** the life of cities, signifi
cant social differences in its experience were recognised. Today, the empirical and …

Criminal events capture the attention of the general public in a way that few other events can
(cf. Skogan and Maxfield 1981). One reason is that crimes receive extraordinary emphasis in …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

This article investigates the relationship between neighborhood racial composition and
perceptions residents have of their neighborhood's level of crime. The study uses questions …

Racial threat theory was developed as a way to explain how population composition
influences discriminatory social control practices and has become one of the most …

Race and Policing in America is about relations between police and citizens, with a focus on
racial differences. It utilizes both the authors' own research and other studies to examine …

Previous research shows that people commonly exaggerate the size of minority populations.
Theories of intergroup threat predict that the larger people perceive minority groups to be …