Journal article
Established-Outsider Relations and Fear of Crime in Mining Towns
Sociologia Ruralis, Vol.52(2), pp.147-169
2012
Abstract
Using Elias and Scotson's (1994) account of established-outsider relations, this article examines how the organizational capacity of specific social groups is significant in determining the quality of crime-talk in isolated and rural settings. In particular, social 'oldness' and notions of what constitutes 'community' are significant in determining what activities and individuals are salient within crime-talk. Individual and group interviews , conducted in a West Australian mining town, revealed how crime-talk is an artefact of specific social figurations and the relative ability of groups to act as cohesive and integrated networks. We argue that anxieties regarding crime are a product of specific social figurations and the shifting power ratios of groups within such figurations.
Details
- Title
- Established-Outsider Relations and Fear of Crime in Mining Towns
- Authors
- John Scott (Author) - University of New EnglandKerry Carrington (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyAlison Mcintosh (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Sociologia Ruralis, Vol.52(2), pp.147-169
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2011.00557.x
- ISSN
- 1467-9523
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99651596102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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