Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety by M. Lee

Abstract

Reviews the book, Inventing fear of crime: Criminology and the politics of anxiety by M. Lee. (2007). Given the enormous number of research articles and books about 'fear of crime', an obvious task for Inventing Fear of Crime is for it to demonstrate that it is not one more sterile re-running of the same arguments. Overall, Inventing Fear of Crime offers important historical insights into fear of crime both as a key criminological concept and as a staple of popular and political discourse. The arguments about the governance of fear of crime are a signpost to some of the issues that are likely to sustain the current discourse regarding terrorism. The book makes many significant and original contributions, and should therefore be an important reference on its subject matter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)