SOSC 3654 Lecture Notes - Sport Utility Vehicle, Squeegee Man
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Security is not a thing but a configuration of social relations; - umbrella term. What kind of social relations inform security": Regardless whether fear is realistic, fear itself it treated as the indicator of quality of life. Rather than telling people not to be afraid, we have created ways to reduce people"s anxiety of crime rather than crime itself. Fear is the reason why people leave dangerous neighborhoods. There is no such thing as being too safe try to decrease our anxiety. Solicitation is illegal based on the feeling of another person being intimidated. No such thing as a victimless crime. Women report themselves as being more fearful than men. Women, fear, and social control no longer trying to educate these women (no longer important) Women are more aware, and afraid of crime. Fear of crime has a salience than beyond its actual impacts.