tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post8397594365905555696..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: CCTV makes people more anxiousJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-15352390850499509442012-11-01T10:44:03.825+00:002012-11-01T10:44:03.825+00:00I completely agree with this. As a child who was s...I completely agree with this. As a child who was scared of the dark it was always the case that the more my parents did to reassure me that I was safe with them the scarier the dark house seemed when they were in another room. This is surely just the same thing writ large!<br /><br />You haven't said anything so far to contradict this, but just in case these two posts were going to start a bit of a trend I thought I should point out that fear of crime has been falling in this country for almost 20 years. In fact the trend in people's fear of crime follows almost exactly the trend in crime itself.<br /><br />It is true that most years the majority of people say they feel that crime is on the rise, however this is something of a static trend (although interestingly it does show some variation with trends in crime itself), it does not in-fact mean that people are getting more afraid of crime, i.e. emotionally we are responding to crime as it is, even if do not in fact successfully report what is going on when asked.Simonnoreply@blogger.com