Janet Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3608019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Challenging Perceptions
This chapter describes tenant&s;s experiences of community and neighbourliness on a difficult-to-let estate in London which emerged from ethnographic research for a Home Office funded evaluation of the Priority Estates Project (PEP) and its impact on crime and community. It explores the study that involved eighteen months overt participant observation on the estate and seventy interviews with residents, housing staff, police officers and other &s…
It might have been incompetent, but it wasn't racist’: Murder detectives’ perceptions of the Lawrence Inquiry and its impact on homicide investigation in London
This article describes murder detectives’ perceptions of the Lawrence Inquiry and its impact on homicide investigation in London. Based on extensive qualitative research with a murder team, and interviews with detectives involved in the original inquiry, the article describes how the events surrounding Stephen Lawrence's murder and its investigation were ‘framed’ in very different ways. In one account race and institutional racism were central, i…
London: The developers' city
The Need for a Qualitative Data Archival Policy
Informal Social Control and Community Crime Prevention
The absence of informal social control is frequently thought to play a major role in levels of crime. Tet relatively little research has focused directly on the role of informal social control in high crime areas. This article based on ethnographic research describes a London housing estate that had statistically higher than average rates of crime and many of the 'design failures ' of public housing. Tet crime was not perceived to be a 'problem '…
Conflicting Forces
TIMOTHY HOPE, JANET FOSTER; CONFLICTING FORCES: Changing the Dynamics of Crime and Community on a ‘Problem’ Estate, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol
Villains: Crime and Community in the Inner City
Crime, culture, and community: 2. The Grafton Arms: 3. Tracing the steps: the evolution of attitudes: 4. Women: 5. Youth: like father like son: 6. Generations: past and future: Appendix - Some considerations on methodology: References: Index
From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl, by Donald B. Smith
It might have been incompetent, but it wasn't racist’: Murder detectives’ perceptions of the Lawrence Inquiry and its impact on homicide investigation in London
This article describes murder detectives’ perceptions of the Lawrence Inquiry and its impact on homicide investigation in London. Based on extensive qualitative research with a murder team, and interviews with detectives involved in the original inquiry, the article describes how the events surrounding Stephen Lawrence's murder and its investigation were ‘framed’ in very different ways. In one account race and institutional racism were central, i…
Informal Social Control and Community Crime Prevention
The absence of informal social control is frequently thought to play a major role in levels of crime. Tet relatively little research has focused directly on the role of informal social control in high crime areas. This article based on ethnographic research describes a London housing estate that had statistically higher than average rates of crime and many of the 'design failures ' of public housing. Tet crime was not perceived to be a 'problem '…
The Need for a Qualitative Data Archival Policy
Conflicting Forces
TIMOTHY HOPE, JANET FOSTER; CONFLICTING FORCES: Changing the Dynamics of Crime and Community on a ‘Problem’ Estate, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol
From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl, by Donald B. Smith
Villains: Crime and Community in the Inner City
Crime, culture, and community: 2. The Grafton Arms: 3. Tracing the steps: the evolution of attitudes: 4. Women: 5. Youth: like father like son: 6. Generations: past and future: Appendix - Some considerations on methodology: References: Index
Conflicting Forces
TIMOTHY HOPE, JANET FOSTER; CONFLICTING FORCES: Changing the Dynamics of Crime and Community on a ‘Problem’ Estate, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol
Informal Social Control and Community Crime Prevention
The absence of informal social control is frequently thought to play a major role in levels of crime. Tet relatively little research has focused directly on the role of informal social control in high crime areas. This article based on ethnographic research describes a London housing estate that had statistically higher than average rates of crime and many of the 'design failures ' of public housing. Tet crime was not perceived to be a 'problem '…
The Need for a Qualitative Data Archival Policy
London: The developers' city
It might have been incompetent, but it wasn't racist’: Murder detectives’ perceptions of the Lawrence Inquiry and its impact on homicide investigation in London
This article describes murder detectives’ perceptions of the Lawrence Inquiry and its impact on homicide investigation in London. Based on extensive qualitative research with a murder team, and interviews with detectives involved in the original inquiry, the article describes how the events surrounding Stephen Lawrence's murder and its investigation were ‘framed’ in very different ways. In one account race and institutional racism were central, i…
Challenging Perceptions
This chapter describes tenant&s;s experiences of community and neighbourliness on a difficult-to-let estate in London which emerged from ethnographic research for a Home Office funded evaluation of the Priority Estates Project (PEP) and its impact on crime and community. It explores the study that involved eighteen months overt participant observation on the estate and seventy interviews with residents, housing staff, police officers and other &s…
Sociology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Estate (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)