Established-outsider relations and fear of crime in mining towns
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01/04/2012
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Using Elias and Scotson's (1994) account of established-outsider relations, this article examines how the organisational 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 gorup interviews, conducted in a West Australian mining town, revealed how crime-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. |
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/50648/1/50648.pdf DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9523.2011.00557.x Scott, John, Carrington, Kerry, & McIntosh, Alison (2012) Established-outsider relations and fear of crime in mining towns. Sociologica Ruralis, 52(2), pp. 147-169. |
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Copyright 2011 The Authors. Sociologia Ruralis © 2011 European Society for Rural Sociology |
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Faculty of Law; School of Justice |
Palavras-Chave | #160200 CRIMINOLOGY #crime-talk #established-outsider relations #mining towns |
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Journal Article |