From Community to Communicative Policing: ‘Signal Crimes’ and the Problem of Public Reassurance

Martin Innes and Nigel Fielding

Sociological Research Online, 2002, vol. 7, issue 2, 56-67

Abstract: In this paper the concept of ‘signal crimes’ is proposed to capture the social semiotic processes by which particular types of criminal and disorderly conduct have a disproportionate impact upon fear of crime. Drawing upon the wider social scientific literature on risk perception, a sense of how and why different crime types might be possessed of different signal values is provided and some of the implications for current police practice outlined.

Keywords: Disorder; Fear Of Crime; Policing; Risk; Social Semiotics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.724

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