Everyday Security Threats: Perceptions, Experiences, and Consequences

by Daniel Stevens and Nick Vaughan-Williams

Book Overview

This book explores citizens' perceptions and experiences of security threats in contemporary Britain, based on twenty focus groups and a large sample survey conducted between April and September 2012. The data is used to investigate the extent to which a diverse public shares government framings of the most pressing security threats, to assess the origins of perceptions of security threats, to investigate what makes some people feel more threatened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719096065
• ISBN13: 9780719096068
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"