El miedo al delito es un tema que ha venido acaparando la atención de las ciencias sociales desde los años setenta, sobre todo en países como Estados Unidos y en Gran Bretaña, que pueden considerarse como la cuna de este campo de investigación. Sin embargo, el interés sobre este tema se ha ido contagiando hacia otros territorios como España, donde si bien no existe la tradición de los países anglosajones, hay un bagaje cada vez más extenso de investigaciones al respecto.

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Desistance studies have routinely focused on issues such as family links, employment prospects and moving away from criminal friends, but they have said less about the meso- and macro-level structural issues that might facilitate or impede the transition of ex-offenders to the status of more mainstream members of civil society.Yet, in view of the necessary interaction between agency and structure in producing processes of desistance, a consideration of social structures (and the implications of changes in structures) is clearly of some importance. This paper addresses these issues, with special reference to recent structural changes in the UK in the fields of employment, families and housing, and criminal policy. The paper concludes with a discussion of conceptual foundations for social policy responses.

Professional empirically generated survey data about the fear of crime persistently indicate relatively small but statistically significant differences between fear rates expressed by men and women. Such differences are contrasted with objective crime victimization risk ratios; regularly magnified by amateur surveys; and have been ossified as stereotypes by the media. Subsequently, all women are believed to be fearful of crime; and all men fearless. The research reported herein encountered, paradoxically, fearful men and fearless women. A dissection of their qualitatively garnered feelings indicates, in a very provisional way, the general conditions under which crime-related fears are reduced and enhanced. Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in the fear of crime from both academics and policy makers. A plethora of studies, including several sweeps of the British and Scottish Crime Surveys, have concluded that such fear continues to impinge upon the well-being of a proportion of the population (see,