RT Article
T1 Street Pastors: on security, care and faith in the British night-time economy
JF European journal of criminology
VO 15
IS 4
SP 403
OP 420
A1 Steden, Ronald van
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1580077080
AB This paper presents a study of Street Pastors in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. Street Pastors are Christian volunteers who look after vulnerable people in the night-time economy. In this manner, they provide securitas through empathy and care. The motives of Street Pastors for engaging with partygoers are multi-layered, but their personal faith appears to be a key explanation. A certain kind of orthodox certitudo – of being safe in, and saved by, a higher power – gives the pastors their strength to go out on the street, face the unknown and feel compassion for their fellow citizens. As such, both ‘securitas’ and ‘certitudo’ highlight positive (that is, constitutive) connotations of safety and security not commonly heard in the criminological literature.
K1 Certitudo
K1 Christianity
K1 Nightlife
K1 Securitas
K1 Security governance
K1 Volunteers
DO 10.1177/1477370817747499