Fear of crime and overall anxieties in rural areas : The case of Sweden
This chapter discusses the nature of fear of crime by placing it in a broader context using Swedish rural areas as a case study. It focuses on particular groups in Swedish rural areas: the farmers, the Sami young adults and local residents in relation to temporary newcomers, the 'berry pickers&...
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ftkthstockholm:oai:DiVA.org:kth-233897 2023-05-15T18:12:11+02:00 Fear of crime and overall anxieties in rural areas : The case of Sweden Ceccato, Vania 2018 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-233897 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315651781-25 eng eng KTH, Urbana och regionala studier The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime orcid:0000-0001-5302-1698 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-233897 urn:isbn:9781138120334 urn:isbn:9781315651781 doi:10.4324/9781315651781-25 Scopus 2-s2.0-85051006730 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap Chapter in book info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart text 2018 ftkthstockholm https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315651781-25 2022-08-11T12:38:19Z This chapter discusses the nature of fear of crime by placing it in a broader context using Swedish rural areas as a case study. It focuses on particular groups in Swedish rural areas: the farmers, the Sami young adults and local residents in relation to temporary newcomers, the 'berry pickers'. The chapter also discusses how fear and anxieties take shape by looking at particular groups. Anxieties are fed by multi-scale factors, which make fear a difficult issue to be tackled as a policing matter. However, fear of crime and other overall anxieties are rarely considered as priority issues by these local crime prevention councils. Equally important is to better understand the mechanisms linking everyday practices with othering and discrimination as generators of fears and other anxieties. The inflow of berry pickers is characterised by a number of fears. Berry pickers have long been associated with images of crime and problems of social order in the Swedish media. QC 20180903. QC 20191023 Book Part sami Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm: KTHs Publication Database DiVA 354 367 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, [2018] | Series: Routledge international handbooks |
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This chapter discusses the nature of fear of crime by placing it in a broader context using Swedish rural areas as a case study. It focuses on particular groups in Swedish rural areas: the farmers, the Sami young adults and local residents in relation to temporary newcomers, the 'berry pickers'. The chapter also discusses how fear and anxieties take shape by looking at particular groups. Anxieties are fed by multi-scale factors, which make fear a difficult issue to be tackled as a policing matter. However, fear of crime and other overall anxieties are rarely considered as priority issues by these local crime prevention councils. Equally important is to better understand the mechanisms linking everyday practices with othering and discrimination as generators of fears and other anxieties. The inflow of berry pickers is characterised by a number of fears. Berry pickers have long been associated with images of crime and problems of social order in the Swedish media. QC 20180903. QC 20191023 |
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