RT Article
T1 Urban criminology: thinking beyond the paradox
JF Criminological encounters
VO 3
IS 1
SP 62
OP 72
A1 Atkinson, Rowland 1972-
A2 Millington, Gareth
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1899175040
AB Criminology has often taken the city as the de facto space of its intellectual project. Despite this, criminology has never been urban. Criminology has implicitly focused on problems of the city while rarely being for the city, in many cases contributing to the case against urban living. "Mainstream" formulations of the criminological project, in the forms of administrative and positivist approaches, have not been a friend to the city ‒ especially to its more excluded, its deprived, and to communities experiencing enduring forms of discrimination. Indeed, many such urban communities have often been identified as forming the spatial and social constitution of the urban crime problem. Such a city-facing, yet anti-urban, criminology has been realised in rhetorical and discursive terms, but also in its state and policy formulations. Its most significant examples being defensible space, zero tolerance policing, and situational crime prevention. In this sense, the idea of an urban criminology has seemed paradoxical. We reflect here on a more critical and progressive engagement with crime in cities, suggesting the need for a robust and closer dialogue between critical urban studies and critical criminology.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 69-71
K1 Cities
K1 Criminological Theory
K1 Inequality
K1 urban criminology
K1 Urban Studies
K1 urban theory
DO 10.26395/CE20030106