Policing and the Fear of Crime
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When crimes occur-when a ghetto teenager is shot to death in a gang war, when an elderly woman is mugged for her social security check, when a nurse is raped in a hospital parking lot, when one driver is punched by another in a dispute over a parking place, when a black family's new home is vandalizedsociety's attention is naturally focused on the victims and their material losses. Their wounds, bruises, lost property, and inconveniencecan be seen, touched, and counted. These are the concrete signs of criminal victimization.
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