an article by Riccardo Valente (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) and Lucrezia Crescenzi Lanna (University of Vic–Central University of Catalonia (UVic–UCC), Spain) published in International Journal of Comparative Sociology Volume 60 Issue 5 (October 2019)
Abstract
The research aims at analyzing the fear of crime and its consequences on social cohesion and informal social control.
The study is based on data collected through a triangulation of qualitative techniques (in-depth interviews, participant observation, and semi-structured focus groups) throughout eight neighborhoods of four European cities.
Challenging the initial expectations, the results obtained show that, under certain circumstances, the fear of crime might foster genuine forms of social involvement and problem-solving participation.
Nevertheless, the general trend indicates that crime-related anxieties are fuelling the emergence of nostalgic, passive-aggressive, and violent forms of identity, which might promote potentially dangerous types of collective action.
This article has been marked up for reading in the British Library in the New Year. The abstract does not tell me nearly enough of what I want to know!
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