Research Student: Anna Barker
Local Perceptions of Insecurity: Increasing Public Reassurance and Confidence through Intensive Neighbourhood Management
Planned Submission Date: 30 September 2010
The aim of my PhD is to understand the ways in which crime, disorder and reassurance are perceived and experienced by different social groups (ethnicity and age) in particular contexts and how their interpretations and experiences shape their feelings of safety, generating insecurities and securities for them.
In doing so, the research seeks to explore the ways in which perceptions of insecurity and reassurance interact and how feelings of safety can be enhanced in two multiply deprived and ethnically diverse areas, which experience higher than average levels of crime and anti-social behaviour.
In terms of outcomes, the research seeks to inform discussions about the manner in which local perceptions of insecurity and order are formed and shaped and about which types of initiatives are the most effective for fostering perceptions of safety in particular contexts for a range of social groups.