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The Construction of Crime Fear in Mass Media

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses one of the most relevant contemporary criminological problems – crime fear. The issue of crime fear emerged four decades ago and became of big importance to political, professional and public discourses. Many practitioners consider the problem of crime fear not less significant than crime problem itself. The article discusses the gravity of this topic in modern society, provides major theoretical models of fear of crime, analyses what function does fear take in political discourse and explains its interaction with mass media, which are one of the main disseminators of criminal fear in contemporary society. Simultaneously, it is important to emphasize that media’s crime fear discourse and narratives are not autonomous, since „the fear of crime feedback loop” includes different social agents that enable its functioning. Thus, we may discuss a certain relation between mass media and crime fear, but not the direct causality between the two.

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