Beyond Fear of Crime: Toward a Reconceptualization of Emotional Responses to Threat in Urban Public Places

What do social scientists communicate when they label a person or community fearful of crime ? I examine the utility of “fear of crime” as a heuristic for representing emotional responses to threat. Applying Sklansky’s concept of cognitive burn-in , which describes the epistemic foreclosures that oc...

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Main Author: Rebecca Lennox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-11-01
Series:Socius
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241302242
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