ABSTRACT

As well as finding empirical relationships between victimisation, key socio-demographic variables and various psychological and environmental processes, criminologists have long suspected that the feelings now identified, corralled together and labelled as ‘the fear of crime’ have roots in the wider shifts in the social and economic bases of society. In this paper, and using survey data from a nationally representative sample of Britons aged over 16 (n = 5781), we explore the relationships between feelings of political and social nostalgia and the fear of crime. We find that nostalgia is strongly related to crime fears, and, indeed, stronger even than variables such as victimisation, gender and age (three of the frequently cited associates of fear). We go on to explore these relationships further in terms of different socio-economic classes and relate feelings of nostalgia and fear to their recent (ie, post-1945) historical trajectories.

摘要

除了发现受害、关键社会人口变量和各种心理和环境过程之间的经验关系外，犯罪学家长期以来一直怀疑，现在被识别、聚集在一起并被贴上“对犯罪的恐惧”标签的情绪根源于社会更广泛的转变。社会的社会和经济基础。在本文中，并使用来自 16 岁以上英国人的全国代表性样本的调查数据（n = 5781），我们探讨了政治和社会怀旧的感觉与对犯罪的恐惧之间的关系。我们发现怀旧与犯罪恐惧密切相关，事实上，甚至比受害、性别和年龄（三个经常被引用的恐惧相关联）等变量更强烈。我们继续根据不同的社会经济阶层进一步探索这些关系，并将怀旧和恐惧感与他们最近（即 1945 年后）的历史轨迹联系起来。