RT Article
T1 Persuasion architectures: Consumer spaces, affective engineering and (criminal) harm
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 25
IS 4
SP 619
OP 638
A1 Kindynis, Theo
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1778198627
AB Drawing together recent theoretical work from both within and beyond criminology, this article considers the role of strategically designed consumer spaces in eliciting potentially criminogenic and harmful dispositions and behaviours. First, the article introduces recent work in cultural geography and urban studies, which has drawn attention to the manipulation of affect through spatial design. Second, by way of example, the article considers how such strategies are deployed in three types of consumer environments: shopping malls and retail spaces; casinos and other gambling environments; and the so-called night time economy. Third, the article engages such developments theoretically. It is suggested we rethink the distinctions and interrelationships between human subjectivity and agency and the built environment. The implications of this proposed conceptual reorientation are explored—first, for our understandings of agency, intentionality, moral responsibility and political accountability; and second, for criminological thinking around embodied difference, power and exclusion.
K1 urban space
K1 Cultural Criminology
K1 Consumer spaces
K1 Agency
K1 Affect
DO 10.1177/1362480619894674