Reproducing Disorder: The Effects of Broken Windows Policing on Homeless People with Mental Illness in San Francisco
In recent decades, cities have increasingly turned to law enforcement for the spatial management of the visibly poor. Commonly referred to as order-maintenance policing, this approach aims to remove undesirable or “disorderly” subjects from urban public space. Often understood as part of a broader p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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Social justice
Year: 2018, Volume: 45, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 51-74 |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | In recent decades, cities have increasingly turned to law enforcement for the spatial management of the visibly poor. Commonly referred to as order-maintenance policing, this approach aims to remove undesirable or “disorderly” subjects from urban public space. Often understood as part of a broader punitive turn’in urban governance, recent scholarship suggests that a purely punitive lens obscures how police may use the tactics of order maintenance to coerce the disordered and disorderly into rehabilitative programs. Using San Francisco as a case study, this article examines the impact of order-maintenance practices on the lives of unhoused people with mental illness and illustrates how these policing tactics reproduce the disorderly bodies they aim to remove. |
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