Spaces of (in)security: Media and fear of crime in a local context

Banks, Mark (2005). Spaces of (in)security: Media and fear of crime in a local context. Crime, Media, Culture, 1(2) pp. 169–187.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659005054020

Abstract

This paper examines the relationships between media, fear of crime and community attachment. It proposes a new framework for understanding the impacts of media crime images, one that takes into account the geographical embeddedness of the audience within the contexts of reception – a hitherto overlooked variable in reception analysis.

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• Item ORO ID
• 9387
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1741-6590
• Keywords
• media; fear of crime; television; community; sense of place; Manchester;
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC)
• Depositing User
• Mark Banks