Urban Policing and the Fear of Crime

The interplay between policing strategies and the fear of crime in urban areas has only recently garnered the attention it warrants. There are two main reasons for this. The Ž rst revolves around the relatively ambiguous or undeveloped exploration of the linkage between crime and the fear of crime. The second reason hinges on the Ž rst: amorphous knowledge of the crime–fear of crime nexus has compelled police agencies, until fairly recently, to target speciŽ c crimes and only generally to address fear of crime. This paper focuses on the relationships between various policing strategies and fear of crime in urban areas. How does fear of crime affect policing and do policing strategies deliberately and/or unwittingly impact on residents’ fear of crime?

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