RT Article
T1 ‘Before there was danger but there was rules and safety in those Rules’: effects of neighbourhood redevelopment on criminal structures
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 2
SP 422
OP 440
A1 Urbanik, Marta-Marika
A2 Thompson, Sara K. 1971-
A2 Bucerius, Sandra M. 1978-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/156559939X
AB Research has shown that ‘street codes’ often govern behaviour and violence in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. However, little is known about what happens to established street codes in a context of massive neighbourhood change. Our research in Regent Park, Canada’s oldest and largest public housing neighbourhood currently undergoing neighbourhood restructuring, we suggest that the displacement of ‘major criminal players’ from the neighbourhood has eroded the long-established codes of conduct they enforced and has undermined informal systems of criminal governance in the neighbourhood. As a consequence, young people express concern over what they perceive to be a growing preponderance of violence in the context of a competitive rush to fill a power vacuum created by the displacement of neighbourhood ‘old heads’.
K1 Street code
K1 Public housing
K1 Victimization
K1 Violence
K1 Neighbourhood restructuring
K1 Gangs
K1 Straßenkultur
K1 Kulturelle Codes
K1 Sozialer Brennpunkt
K1 Sozialer Wohnungsbau
K1 Restrukturierung
DO 10.1093/bjc/azv128