Signal crime is a concept coined by Professor Martin Innes and Professor Nigel Fielding, aiming "to capture the social semiotic processes by which particular types of criminal and disorderly conduct have a disproportionate impact upon fear of crime."[1] The concept was created to aid a policing approach being trialled in the early 2000s by Surrey Police called reassurance policing – the ascendent to the current 'neighbourhood policing' approach in England and Wales. This approach was developed in order to close the 'reassurance gap' – the paradoxical situation in which the public's 'fear of crime' (as measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales – previously called the British Crime Survey) does not change in tandem with the overall crime rate.[2] The Signal Crimes Perspective contended that fear of crime and people's risk perceptions – the perceived likelihood of being victimised – were linked to certain crimes, deviant behaviours or the residual signs of these activities:
In effect, the crime or incident is 'read' as a warning signal by its audience(s) that something is wrong or lacking, as a result of which they might be induced to take some form of protective action. In addition, the presence of this signal will shape how the person or groups concerned construct beliefs concerning other potential dangers and beliefs.[3]
^Innes and Fielding (2002), abstract – http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/2/innes.html
^Tuffin et al (2006), p2–3 – https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/115825/hors296.pdf
^Innes and Fielding (2002), para 5.2 – http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/2/innes.html
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