Introduction: risk, insecurity and the politics of law and order Tim Hope and Richard Sparks PART ONE: 'Private Troubles':risk, crime and everyday life 1. Victims R US: the life history of 'fear of crime' and the politicization of violence Elizabeth A. Stanko 2. the role of anxiety in fear of crime Tony Jefferson and Wendy Hollway 3. Trust and the problem of community in the inner city Sandra Walklate 4. After Success?:anxieties of affluence in an English village Ian Loader, Evi Girling and Richard Sparks 5. Inequality and the clubbing of private security Tim Hope 6. 'No more happy endings'?: the media and popular concern about crime since the Second World War Robert Reiner, Sonia Livingstone and Jessica Allen PART TWO: 'Public issues': perspectives on risk and penal politics Richard Sparks 8.

Social conflict and the micro-physics of crime: the experience of the Emilia Romagna Citta Sicure project Dario Melossi and Rossella Selmini 9. Criminal victimization and social adaptation in modernity: fear of crime and risk perception in the new Germany Uwe Ewald 10. the pursuit of security Lucia Zedner 11. Some day our prince will come: zero tolerance policing and liberal government Kevin Stenson 12. William Horton's long shadow: 'punitiveness' and 'managerialism' in the penal politics of Massachusetts, 1988-1999 Theodore Sasson.