The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll in Hyde Park: Fear, Media and the Conduct of an Emancipatory Geography

This paper recounts the transformation of a student study on fear of violence and the use of urban space into a public instrument of oppression. Although the students' survey was conducted with emancipatory intent, media handling of the study's results is likely to have heightened levels of fear in the local population and to have caused some members of the public to imprison themselves in their own homes.