Established-Outsider Relations and Fear of Crime in Mining Towns

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ID4445689
AutoresJohn Scott (0000-0002-1672-4199, University of New England, autor correspondente), K Carrington (0000-0001-6297-2786, Queensland University of Technology, autor correspondente), Alison J Mcintosh (0000-0003-1593-700X, Queensland University of Technology, autor correspondente), Alison Mcintosh
Ano2012
Volume52
Fascículo2
Páginas147-169
Data de publicação2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9523.2011.00557.x
OpenAlexW1491004689
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas21
Referências citadas35

Using Elias and Scotson's (1994) account of established-outsider relations, this article examines how the organizational capacity of specific social groups is significant in determining the quality of crime-talk in isolated and rural settings. In particular, social 'oldness' and notions of what constitutes 'community' are significant in determining what activities and individuals are salient within crime-talk. Individual and group interviews, conducted in a West Australian mining town, revealedhowcrime-talk is an artefact of specific social figurations and the relative ability of groups to act as cohesive and integrated networks. We argue that anxieties regarding crime are a product of specific social figurations and the shifting power ratios of groups within such figurations

Criminology · Epistemology · Fear of crime · Political science · Power (physics) · Product (mathematics) · Quality (philosophy) · Rural community · Salient · Social group · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sociology and Norbert Elias