The culture of fear : why Americans are afraid of the wrong things /

• Glassner, Barry.

• Social perception -- United States
• Social problems -- United States
• Anxiety -- United States
• Fear -- United States

• BasicBooks,

• 0465014909
• 0465014895

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

• fear of crime
• Inventing fear of crime criminology and the politics of anxiety
• Pioneers in criminology
• Organised crime
• Surveillance of public space CCTV street lighting and crime prevention
• use of punishment
• Criminological research understanding qualitative methods
• Violent crime assessing race and ethnic differences
• Contemporary perspectives on serial murder
• Crime prevention facts fallacies and the future
• Criminal justice an introduction to philosophies theories and practice
• Crime control and community the new politics of public safety
• Handbook of crime prevention and community safety
• Doing criminological research
• Understanding violent crime
• Criminological theory context and consequences
• penal system an introduction
• Understanding crime prevention social control risk and late modernity
• media students book
• Crime prevention and community safety new directions
• Criminology
• Offender profiling and crime analysis
• Crime prevention and community safety politics policies and practices
• psychology of criminal conduct theory research and practice
• Criminological perspectives essential readings
• problem of crime
• Questionnaire design interviewing and attitude measurement