Signal Crimes: Reactions to Crime, Disorder, and Control

by Martin Innes

Drawing upon a ten-year programme of fieldwork research, Signal Crimes: The Social Organisation of Reacting to Crime and Social Control presents the results from a series of inter-linked empirical studies that have resulted in the concept of a 'signal crime': an incident that changes how people think, feel and behave about their safety due to their actions operating as signals to the presence of wider risks and threats.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199684464
• ISBN13: 9780199684465
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"