Urban Policing and the Fear of Crime

[Paper rst received in nal form, January 2001] The interplay between policing strategies and the fear of crime in urban areas has only recently garnered the attention it warrants. There are two main reasons for this. The rst revolves around the relatively ambiguous or undeveloped exploration of the linkage be-tween crime and the fear of crime. The se-cond reason hinges on the rst: amorphous knowledge of the crime–fear of crime nexus has compelled police agencies, until fairly recently, to target speci c crimes and only generally to address fear of crime. This paper focuses on the relationships between various policing strategies and fear