Is Concern about Safety Changing

Bibliographic Data

ID2628397
AuthorsPhilippe Robert (0000-0001-8122-8880, Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales, corresponding author), Marie-Lys Pottier (Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales)
Year2006
Volume47
Issue5
Pages35-63
Publication date2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue Française de Sociologie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-2969 • E-ISSN: 1958-5691
PublisherCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/rfs.475.0035
OpenAlexW2094991371
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited23

The article seeks to demonstrate that the sudden rise in preoccupations with security and law and order at the time of the 2002 elections in France cannot be explained solely by circumstantial factors but reflects instead a profound transformation in these concerns. After the relevance and limitations of an analysis in purely circumstantial terms is shown, the main demonstration is constructed around the distinction that has been developed between fear and preoccupation. Data from a survey conducted with near-annual regularity from 1977 to 2002 are then used to demonstrate how security preoccupations have become repatterned since the mid-nineties in such a way that an autonomous version of this type of concern is now to be found in social groups previously reluctant to adopt an attitude of concern about security. The last part of the article discusses the import of the results obtained: How should they be interpreted, and how can they be expected to affect security policy

Affect (linguistics) · Circumstantial evidence · Economics · Law and economics · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Positive economics · Relevance (law) · Social security · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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