Signal crimes and signal disorders: Notes on deviance as communicative action

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 335-355

  Innes, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Risk perception; Signal crime; Signal disorder; Social reaction; Social semiotics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CRIME; CRIMINOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRIME; CRIMINOLOGY; CUES; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; RISK; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 4644330550     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2004.00023.x     Document Type: Article

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