Local governance of safety and the normalization of behavior
In almost all West-European countries and large parts of the world the governance of public safety tops political priorities at both national and local level. We can observe a growing attention for public safety issues in our cities and streets, resulting in local communities and authorities that in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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Crime, law and social change
Year: 2015, Volume: 64, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 305-317 |
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| Summary: | In almost all West-European countries and large parts of the world the governance of public safety tops political priorities at both national and local level. We can observe a growing attention for public safety issues in our cities and streets, resulting in local communities and authorities that increasingly have the possibility to deal with these issues in a rather autonomous way. In this contribution, I discuss the local governance of safety through a critical analysis and reflection of inherent, new regulatory tools within an administrative or civil framework. In doing so, I focus on the precarious position of three specific categories, i.e., minors and youth, panhandlers and ‘potential’ drug users. This analysis starts off with and draws a parallel to broader social and political trends, which criminologists have described as the shift from a ‘post-crime’ to a ‘pre-crime’ society where pre-emptive logics, mechanisms of exclusion and the criminalization of behavior tend to prevail. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 315-317 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0751 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10611-015-9592-4 |
