This Working Paper - the first a series of discussion papers drafted under the auspices of an ESRC research grant (RES 000231108) - outlines our approach to a rather thorny set of conceptual and methodological issues relating to fear of crime research. We come at the topic from a...

This paper outlines the theoretical positions adopted to explain the fear of crime. We start by outlining the broad theoretical approaches taken to account for levels of fear of crime since the 1960s. We structure our review into five sections: The victimisation thesis; Imagined victimisation...

We believe that advances in quantitative methods regarding fear of crime can and should be made. Following in a line of research going back nearly a decade (Farrall et al. 1997; Farrall, 2002; Farrall & Gadd, 2004; Jackson, 2004; Jackson et al. 2007) our Working Papers have assessed the everyday experience of...