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Book SynopsisHow rules about safety and the fear of crime are learned and crystalized into crime myths especially for women
Trade Review“In Teaching Fear
, Nicole Rader brings together what we know about contemporary fears of violence and victimization. She shows how our fears are created, why they take the forms they do, how they shape the lives of children and adults, and how we can approach our fears in more constructive ways.”—
Joel Best, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, and author of
American Nightmares: Social Problems in an Anxious World“Can a book about gendered fear of crime be an enjoyable read? If the book is Teaching Fear
, the answer is yes. Written in a highly accessible style but grounded firmly in empirical research, Teaching Fear
provides a much-needed debunking of popular gendered and racialized crime myths and offers strategies for finally ending the intergenerational transmission of these false and harmful beliefs."—
Claire Renzetti, Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky, and author of
Feminist Criminology"Girls are taught to be afraid of a variety of things from a very young age and thus grow up living a much narrower world compared to males.... This book is extremely helpful for understanding how the media, schools, and the criminal justice system perpetuate these fears, which can seriously impede peoples', particularly women's, lives. Rader strives to make readers understand that these fears frequently center on both specific races and the female gender.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—
Choice“Rader does an excellent job at highlighting how the intersection of ideas about race and gender deeply shape how we understand crime. She explains this dynamic clearly and simply without losing any of the important nuances.... [I]t is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on the social reproduction of crime myths, especially gendered ones."—
Social Forces
