Crime & Crime policy

Kury, Helmut & Winterdyk, John (Eds.): Fear of Crime
and Punitiveness – Results from International Student
Surveys.
(Crime and Crime Policy Vol. 9) Bochum 2013, ISBN 978-3-8196-0910-7, Softcover. 216
pp. 24 x 17 cm. € 39,90
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As a subject area of inquiry and research, fear of crime and punitiveness have played an
increasingly important role in criminology. Since the early 1990s, and emanating largely from
within the United States, there has been a growing body of research as well as increased
attention given to the subject by the media and policy-makers. In part, triggered by the fact
that the Unites States has the highest imprisonment rate (approx. 780/100,000 in 2012) in the
Western world and still has the death penalty in most states, increasing attention has been paid
to the impact of peoples’ perceptions of crime, their fear of possible victimization, and their
sense of punitivity towards offenders. And although the body of literature on fear of crime
and puntivity has been growing, there still remain many regions and countries of the world
where there is a dearth of such research. This collection includes several of the countries
where such research represents the first of its kind. The reader will be provided a broad
overview of the subject and presented with varied observations about fear of crime and
punitivity from different parts of the world. As the project represents a novel and exploratory
venture into the subject area, the collective content provided in this collection will hopefully
also serve to advance future research and inform sentencing policy and initiatives to address
fear of crime.
Content:
Kury, Helmut & Winterdyk, John
Results about Fear of Crime and Punitiveness –
Introduction;
Winterdyk, John & Hincks, Crystal
Fear of Crime and Punitivity: A Canadian Overview ;
Antonopoulos, Georgios, A., Papanicolaou, Georgios, Tupling, Claire &
Wattis, Louise
Perspectives on Punitivity, victimisation and fear of crime:
A student case study in the United Kingdom ;
Rowe, Michael
Perceptions of Fear of Crime and Punitivity in New Zealand;
Zhao, Ruohui, Cao, Liqun & Zhao, Jihong
Fear of Crime and Punitivity among College Students in Macau, China;
Gholami, Hussein, Nikookar, HamidReza
An Analysis on the Relationship between Fear of Crime and Inclination
To Punitivity among University Students;
Chakraborty, Tapan
Fear of Crime and Victimization among university students in India.