Rachel Pain, in "Gender Race, Age and Fear in the City" reviews the current literature in the discipline of geography regarding social identity and fear of violence as determinants of urban social space in contemporary Great Britain. The article reviews both theoretical and empirical research on the subject, with an awareness of the complexities of this research area and the fact that earlier findings of "fact" in this field - for example, with regard to the supposed "irrationality" of women's and older people's fear of crime - has been since challenged and contradicted by later research (900). This awareness of the sheer complexity of the research area, and the consequent problematic nature of conclusions with respect to social identity, fear and urban space, is one of the strong points of the article.
