Crime and Security

No. 96 SEPTEMBER 2019

What do we fear most in our daily lives? How does this degree of fear vary according to social groups? Is our insecurity proportional to the levels of crime that exist? The book addresses these phenomena, how they have changed and how they have been explained. Did you know that behaviour such as adultery, homosexuality and adult pornography, loitering and begging are no longer a crime in Portugal, while sexual harassment, activities that are harmful to the environment and racial and religious discrimination have become illegal? In fact, conduct that violates standards is far more widespread than might be thought and can be found in all areas, even the most conventional. Real in the effects they produce, crime, (in)security and victimisation are phenomena whose outlines are blurred and are complex to define. This book is an open door to this set of phenomena, the most relevant developments in them and the main attempts to explain them.