Atkinson, R.G. orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-9380 (2014) Urban Policy, City Control and Social Catharsis: The Attack on Social Frailty as Therapy. British Journal of Criminology, 55 (5). pp. 866-882. ISSN 0007-0955
Abstract
Urban policies have increasingly been ‘criminalised’ as regeneration, public housing management and homelessness programmes have been aligned with the aims of criminal justice and anti-social behaviour measures. In this article, policies that tackle problem places, people and behaviours are interpreted as expressions of social anger and fear that are made tangible via periodic attacks on social marginality. Case examples are offered in which urban policies appear as a kind of social catharsis or exorcizing of fear/anxiety. Such urban policies appear to construct social vulnerability as a threat that thereby helps to trigger interventions that might help realize goals of urban renewal and release from worries about criminality and urban social decline. This model of control and policymaking is developed by drawing on the emotional energies at the heart of cultural criminology and critical perspectives taken from contemporary urban studies.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Oxford University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in JOURNAL. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | cultural criminology; fear of crime; gentrification; revanchism; urban politics |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2016 16:26 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jan 2017 13:32 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/bjc/azu101 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97007 |