RT Article
T1 Governing through vulnerability in austerity England
JF European journal of criminology
VO 18
IS 5
SP 695
OP 712
A1 Menichelli, Francesca
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1777961467
AB Drawing on interviews with practitioners, the article reconstructs how and why vulnerability has become an organizing principle in community safety work in England and Wales. Decreasing crime rates, growing awareness of risk and harm, loss of political salience of volume crime and modifications to the structure of incentives all contributed to making the move away from crime and disorder possible. The article shows how vulnerability is now used to facilitate partnership working to maintain existing levels of service provision, but also to ration the amount of support made available to citizens at a time of austerity. This is potentially problematic and open questions remain on the solidity, orientation and reach of this shift. The article concludes by discussing the research findings in light of their broader implications for European criminology and comparative research.
K1 Austerity
K1 Community safety
K1 Partnership working
K1 Vulnerability
K1 England
K1 Wales
DO 10.1177/1477370819880154