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As fear of crime has grown in society, it has become of increasing concern for criminologists, policy makers, politicians, police and the media. This book traces the historical emergence of the fear of crime concept, addresses the issue of fear of crime and political rationality, and analyses fear of crime as a tactic or technique of government. It is essential reading on one of the key issues in government and politics in contemporary society.

Australia, along with nation-states internationally, has entered a new phase of environmentally focused activism, with globalised, coordinated and social media–enabled environmental social movements seeking to address human-induced climate change and related issues such as the mass extinction of species and land clearing. Some environmental protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) have attracted significant political, media and popular commentary for their sometimes theatrical and disruptive forms of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. Drawing on green and cultural criminology, this article constitutes an autoethnographic account of environmental protest during the final stages of the initial COVID-19 lockdown in NSW, Australia. It takes as a case study a small protest by an XR subgroup called the Pedal Rebels. The article explores the policing of environmental protest from an activist standpoint, highlighting the extraordinary police resources and powers mobilised to regulate a small peaceful group of 'socially distanced' protesters operating within the existing public health orders. It places an autoethnographic description of this protest in the context of policing practice and green and cultural criminology. Additionally, it outlines the way in which such policing is emboldened by changes to laws affecting environmental protest, making activism an increasingly risky activity.

Australia, along with nation-states internationally, has entered a new phase of environmentally focused activism, with globalised, coordinated and social media–enabled environmental social movements seeking to address human-induced climate change and related issues such as the mass extinction of species and land clearing. Some environmental protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) have attracted significant political, media and popular commentary for their sometimes theatrical and disruptive forms of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. Drawing on green and cultural criminology, this article constitutes an autoethnographic account of environmental protest during the final stages of the initial COVID-19 lockdown in NSW, Australia. It takes as a case study a small protest by an XR subgroup called the Pedal Rebels. The article explores the policing of environmental protest from an activist standpoint, highlighting the extraordinary police resources and powers mobilised to regulate a small peaceful group of 'socially distanced' protesters operating within the existing public health orders. It places an autoethnographic description of this protest in the context of policing practice and green and cultural criminology. Additionally, it outlines the way in which such policing is emboldened by changes to laws affecting environmental protest, making activism an increasingly risky activity.

Introduction -- Histories of fear of crime -- Fear of crime before "fear of crime" / Barry Godfrey -- "Hot under the collar" : the garrotting moral panic of the 1860's / Chas Critcher -- The discovery of fear of crime in the U.K. / Mike Hough -- The ebbs and flows of anxiety : how emotional responses to crime and disorder influenced social policy in the U.K. in the twenty-first century / Emily Gray -- Mediating fear of crime -- Fear the monster : racialised violence, sovereign power and the thin blue line / Travis Linnemann and Corina Medley -- After the culture of fear : fear of crime in the United States half a century on / Jonathan Simon -- Fear 2.0 : worry about cybercrime in England and Wales / Ian Brunton-Smith -- Beyond moral panic : young people and fear of crime / Kelly Richards and Murray Lee -- Nothing to fear but fear itself? : liquid provocations for new media and fear of crime / Jamie K. Wardman -- Methodologies and conceptual debates -- A construal-level approach to the fear of crime / Ioanna Gusetti -- Qualifying fear of crime : multi-methods approaches / Murray Lee and Justin R. Ellis -- Visual methods in research on fear of crime : a critical assessment / Gabry Vanderveen -- The perils of "uncertainty" for fear of crime research in the twenty-first century / Will McGowan -- Dissecting and Stratifying Fear of Crime -- Crime and the fear of Muslims / Scott Poynting -- Gender, violence and fear of crime : women as fearing subjects? / Sandra Walklate -- Discovering "the enemy within" : the state, fear and criminology / Karen Evans -- Law, regulation and policing the fear of crime -- In the eye of the (motivated) beholder : towards a motivated cognition perspective on disorder perceptions / Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, Ian Brunton-Smith and Emily Gray -- Countering the fears of terrorism : policing and community relations / Basia Spalek and Tracey Davanna -- Do police officers fear crime in the same way as the population? : results of a local police survey on insecurity and fear of crime in Switzerland / Christine Burkhardt, Natalia Delgrande and Partice Villettaz -- Policing, performance indicators and fear of crime / Alyce McGovern -- Curating risk, selling safety? : fear of crime, responsibilisation and the surveillance school economy / Emmeline Taylor -- Contexts and geographies of fear of crime -- Removing fear of crime : the role of regulation in creating safer spaces for sex workers / Teela Sanders and Lynzi Armstrong -- Fear and insecurity in Latin America / Lucia Dammert and Felipe Salazar -- Fear of crime and overall anxieties in rural areas : the case of Sweden / Vania Ceccato -- Additive and synergistic perceived risk of crime : a multilevel longitudinal study in Peru / Wilson Hernandez -- Punitive populism and fear of crime in Central America / Sebastian Huhn -- Fear of crime research in China / Jianhong Liu and Shan Cui -- Connecting fear of crime : new approaches and ways forward -- How to break a rape culture : gendered fear of crime and the myth of the stranger-rapist / Alex Fanghangel -- Becoming feared : fashioning and projecting the violent self / Mark Halsey -- The fear drop / Marnix Eysnick Smeets and Pim Foekens -- "Hyphenated fears" and "camouflaged" responses : fear of crime, war and militarism / Ross McGarry -- Conclusion

"This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical discussion of contemporary and emerging modes of mediatized police work, Lee and McGovern demonstrate how the police engage with the public through a fluid and quickly expanding assemblage of communications and information technologies.Policing and Media explores the rationalities that are driving police/media relations and asks; how these relationships differ (or not) from the ways they have operated historically; what new technologies are influencing and being deployed by policing organizations and police public relations professionals and why; how operational policing is shaping and being shaped by new technologies of communication; and what forms of resistance are evident to the manufacture of preferred images of police. The authors suggest that new forms of simulated and hyper real policing using platforms such as social media and reality television are increasingly positioning police organisations as media organisations, and in some cases enabling police to bypass the traditional media altogether. The book is informed by empirical research spanning 10 years in this field and includes chapters on journalism and police, policing and social media, policing and reality television, and policing resistances. It will be of interest to those researching and teaching in the fields of Criminology, Policing and Media as well as police and media professionals"--

The term sexting has come to be associated with media, political and public concern over young people's involvement in the sending and/or receiving of nude or semi-nude images and/or videos of one another. Public discourses around sexting have framed the practice as problematic, reflecting long-held – and often very real – anxieties over young people and their sexuality. Of particular focus in relation to sexting have been the risks and harms associated with the practice and current or potential legal responses. Missing from much of this public discourse, however, have been the voices of young people themselves. In order to bring young people's voices into the discourse, this article draws on research conducted with young people, as well as extensive legal and media analysis of sexting by young people. It contrasts these popular and legal discourses around sexting with the discourses of young people themselves, exploring the ways in which they understand and perceive sexting and how these perceptions converge with and diverge from dominant discourses. In this way, the article demonstrates the fundamental discord between such discourses, indicating the need to rethink legal responses to sexting between young people.

In many jurisdictions around the world, community safety and crime prevention activity is supported by interagency committees. In the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), local government Community Safety Officers (CSOs) lead, support or participate in a range of interagency and 'whole of government' networks, most of which were established to support central NSW state government crime prevention and community safety initiatives. Research was conducted with the aim of exploring the CSOs' experience of the 'whole of government' partnerships established to support community safety and crime prevention in NSW.[i] The findings support international research which suggests that central-local partnerships are inhibited by different agendas, responsibilities and power dynamics across different levels of government. Some of the key contextual challenges for this work include concerns about costs shifting from State to local government and about shifting State government priorities; barriers to funding and to accessing crime (and other) data; and various administrative burdens. Consequently, we argued that there is a need for formal engagement and negotiation between, on the one hand, State government agencies that steer NSW crime prevention and, on the other, community safety policy initiatives and local government. Such engagement could help overcome the perception, indeed the reality, that shifting and dumping costs and responsibilities to local government is creating a range of burdens for CSOs. [i] The authors thank the NSW Local Government Community Safety and Crime Prevention Network and the individual local government CSOs who kindly assisted and contributed to this research.

In many jurisdictions around the world, community safety and crime prevention activity is supported by interagency committees. In the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), local government Community Safety Officers (CSOs) lead, support or participate in a range of interagency and 'whole of government' networks, most of which were established to support central NSW state government crime prevention and community safety initiatives. Research was conducted with the aim of exploring the CSOs' experience of the 'whole of government' partnerships established to support community safety and crime prevention in NSW.[i] The findings support international research which suggests that central-local partnerships are inhibited by different agendas, responsibilities and power dynamics across different levels of government. Some of the key contextual challenges for this work include concerns about costs shifting from State to local government and about shifting State government priorities; barriers to funding and to accessing crime (and other) data; and various administrative burdens. Consequently, we argued that there is a need for formal engagement and negotiation between, on the one hand, State government agencies that steer NSW crime prevention and, on the other, community safety policy initiatives and local government. Such engagement could help overcome the perception, indeed the reality, that shifting and dumping costs and responsibilities to local government is creating a range of burdens for CSOs. [i] The authors thank the NSW Local Government Community Safety and Crime Prevention Network and the individual local government CSOs who kindly assisted and contributed to this research.