1: A Signal Crimes Perspective 2: Why Disorder Matters: Reading Urban Situations 3: How Fear Travels: The Private, Parochial, and Public Harm Footprints of Criminal Homicides 4: The Crimes That Were Not There: 'Soft Facts' and the Causes and Consequences of Crime Rumours 5: The Long Shadow of the Twin Towers and the 'New' Counter-terrorism: A Case Study of the Institutional Effects of Signal Crimes 6: Control Signals An Afterword on Method: 'Gonzo Research' and the Uses of Systematic and Unsystematic Social Observation
Martin Innes is Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University where he leads the work of the Universities' Police Science Institute. He is recognised as one of the world's leading thinkers on policing and social control. Author of two previous books Investigating Murder (Oxford) and Understanding Social Control (Open University Press), from 2004-14 he was Editor of the journal Policing and Society, and he has been a contributor to the Guardian and Prospect Magazine. His work on signal crimes was one of the key influences upon the development of Neighbourhood Policing in the UK, and has led to him being regularly asked to advise policing agencies and governments around the world, including in the US, Australia, Canada and Holland.
One of the most eagerly anticipated criminological publications,
Martin Innes' Signal Crimes makes a persuasive case for rethinking
much of our approach to crime and social order. In an
extraordinarily wide-ranging set of essays he focuses our attention
on the ways in which order and disorder are perceived, understood
and communicated, and the implications of this for the ways in
which formal and informal social control work. This is one book
that will surely stand the test of time. * Professor Tim Newburn,
London School of Economics and Political Science *
It is difficult to capture just how important this work is. In
recent years, Martin Innes has pioneered an innovative research
programme which creatively and rigorously explores the many
ramifications of the simple but profound truth that 'some incidents
matter more than others in shaping public sentiments about crime,
disorder and control'. Signal Crimes brings together Innes' work in
this field, covering substantive topics as varied as terrorism,
murder and low-level urban disorder, as well as penetrating
observations on methodology. It is a vital text. * Professor Sir
Anthony Bottoms, University of Cambridge *
Professor Innes has developed a seminal body of work, supported by
mounting evidence from others concerning how people read and rate
crime and disorder in their environment. This thinking was pivotal
in the trials that re-invented neighbourhood policing in England
and Wales. * Sir Denis O'Connor, formerly Her Majesty's Chief
Inspector of Constabulary, 2008-2012 *
Nothing short of a new framework for understanding the social
meaning of crime and criminal justice. * Professor Jonathan Simon,
University of California, Berkeley *
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