Overview
Session 2010-2011 - Application Deadline 19 March 2010
Network - Responding to Global Challenges of Crime and Insecurity
Principal Supervisor
Name Professor Susanne Karstedt - School University Law Leeds - Tel No 0113 343 8260 - E-Mail s.karstedt@leeds.ac.uk
Co-Supervisor
Name Dr Stephen Farrall - Dept/School University Law Sheffield
Description of this project
Within the wider context of responding to global challenges of crime and insecurity, the topic for this studentship seeks to bring a decisively new perspective to research on the fear of crime. This research focuses on those who are perceived as threat, and on those groups that the public views as potential perpetrators of crimes in the street, of organised crime and drug trafficking. The study will particularly look at perceptions, emotions and ensuing actions of those who are perceived as a threat to security by others in daily encounters, and will provide an in-depth analysis of threat and fear in interactions, thus adding a micro-analytic perspective to the wider concerns of local security. Questions of social exclusion and ethnic conflict, and trust and fear will be analysed through the lens of the perspectives of those who are deemed as fearsome, and the micro-interactions through which fear is elicited, managed and avoided. The study will add to the emerging body of micro-analytical approaches to globalisation.
Aim of this research project
The main aim of this research is to consider the current climate of insecurity through the lens of everyday interactions in neighbourhood and city contexts. As recent micro-analytical research indicates, our understanding of micro-processes of fear, threat and ensuing violence and their interactive and dynamic nature are vital for the prevention and management of conflicts in communities, for individual citizens as well as for collectivities. The research has the following related objectives:
1.To understand the micro-dynamics of threat and fear from the perspective of those who are perceived by the public and in communities as potential offenders, as 'fearsome' and 'intimidating'.
2.To contextualise these within the local social and ethnic composition and how this feeds into perceptions of identity, threat and fear.
3.To analyse through qualitative investigation, including qualitative interviews and observational techniques (participant observation as well as sequences from CCTV) threatening and simultaneously fearful encounters predominantly from the perspective of those who are seen as threatening.
4.To contextualise findings within an emerging body of theorising micro-structures of the global.
5.To provide strategies and tools for communities and local government agencies to avoid and manage such micro-conflicts.
Entry Requirements
A relevant postgraduate qualification or equivalent research experience and a good honours degree in an appropriate subject.
MA/ MRes in Criminology/ Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Sociology, Social Psychology
Further details on this studentship
Contact Name - Susanne Karstedt - Tel No 0113-3438260 - Fax No 0113-3432452 - E-Mail s.karstedt@leeds.ac.uk
Bibliography/References
Collins, R. (2009), Violence: A micro-structural perspect
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
Session 2010-2011 - Application Deadline 19 March 2010
Network - Responding to Global Challenges of Crime and Insecurity
Principal Supervisor
Name Professor Susanne Karstedt - School University Law Leeds - Tel No 0113 343 8260 - E-Mail s.karstedt@leeds.ac.uk
Co-Supervisor
Name Dr Stephen Farrall - Dept/School University Law Sheffield
Description of this project
Within the wider context of responding to global challenges of crime and insecurity, the topic for this studentship seeks to bring a decisively new perspective to research on the fear of crime. This research focuses on those who are perceived as threat, and on those groups that the public views as potential perpetrators of crimes in the street, of organised crime and drug trafficking. The study will particularly look at perceptions, emotions and ensuing actions of those who are perceived as a threat to security by others in daily encounters, and will provide an in-depth analysis of threat and fear in interactions, thus adding a micro-analytic perspective to the wider concerns of local security. Questions of social exclusion and ethnic conflict, and trust and fear will be analysed through the lens of the perspectives of those who are deemed as fearsome, and the micro-interactions through which fear is elicited, managed and avoided. The study will add to the emerging body of micro-analytical approaches to globalisation.
Aim of this research project
The main aim of this research is to consider the current climate of insecurity through the lens of everyday interactions in neighbourhood and city contexts. As recent micro-analytical research indicates, our understanding of micro-processes of fear, threat and ensuing violence and their interactive and dynamic nature are vital for the prevention and management of conflicts in communities, for individual citizens as well as for collectivities. The research has the following related objectives:
1.To understand the micro-dynamics of threat and fear from the perspective of those who are perceived by the public and in communities as potential offenders, as 'fearsome' and 'intimidating'.
2.To contextualise these within the local social and ethnic composition and how this feeds into perceptions of identity, threat and fear.
3.To analyse through qualitative investigation, including qualitative interviews and observational techniques (participant observation as well as sequences from CCTV) threatening and simultaneously fearful encounters predominantly from the perspective of those who are seen as threatening.
4.To contextualise findings within an emerging body of theorising micro-structures of the global.
5.To provide strategies and tools for communities and local government agencies to avoid and manage such micro-conflicts.
Entry Requirements
A relevant postgraduate qualification or equivalent research experience and a good honours degree in an appropriate subject.
MA/ MRes in Criminology/ Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Sociology, Social Psychology
Further details on this studentship
Contact Name - Susanne Karstedt - Tel No 0113-3438260 - Fax No 0113-3432452 - E-Mail s.karstedt@leeds.ac.uk
Bibliography/References
Collins, R. (2009), Violence: A micro-structural perspect
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this opportunity
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