Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence

Governing the Urban Periphery
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-46094-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power to present an analytic tool-kit for a critically engaged public criminology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowden, M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Urban Disorder and Symbolic Violence: Opening the Case 2. A Bourdieusian Perspective: Governing Territory and Subjects PART II: THE THEORETICAL CASE: GOVERNING CRIME AND DISORDER IN THE URBAN PERIPHERY IN IRELAND, 1991-2008 Introduction to Part Two 3. The Dublin Urban Periphery, 1960 to 2008: A Political Economy 4. Symbolic Power and the Crisis of Territoriality: Urban Disorder in the 1990s 5. Symbolic Power in Three Peripheral Settings 6. Two Models In Action: Symbolic Violence Versus Ethico-Craft PART III: CONCLUSION 7. Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence

Über Autor(innen)

Matt Bowden is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.