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Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban
condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social
harm. This book gathers cutting-edge treatments, research field
reports and critical examinations of crime and harm in cities, from
the disciplines of urban studies and criminology. The social,
economic and political composition of cities and the various
inequalities that mark out and drive the problem of crime in many
cities today are foregrounded. Readers follow a series of thematic
engagements, generating a deeper understanding of a range of key
areas that include problems of violence, social and spatial
divisions, housing, policing and the role of the urban economy in
issues of financial crime. This book comes at a time of rising
crime in many cities and complex responses by city administrations
and communities. It presents a critical, political thesis - that
crime in cities must be understood with reference to the varying
social structures, political forces and economic opportunities of
cities. These influences intersect to produce dramatic variations
in victimisation and attempts at social control, often felt most
strongly around class and gender divisions. To understand crime, we
must better understand the life of the city. Urban Criminology
seeks to present an integrated framework that brings to life these
key issues and seeks to enthuse students of our urban condition -
to locate the harms within it and to identify ways of reducing the
risk of crime. This book is ideal reading for all students with an
interest in cities, crime, community life, urban sociology and
urban cultures.
This book examines a cycle of films about migration made in the
late 1990s and 2000s. It argues that these films present a novel
(and radical) aesthetic of planetary urbanization based upon the
mobility of the migrant and the dissolution of the city. A
stimulating cinematic analysis of our expanding urban fabric, it
offers an alternative to the 'cultural cityism' of many other films
about migration. The author demonstrates that this particular film
cycle offers a rare, sustained consideration of the travails and
struggles for urban life by migrants beyond and without the city.
Yet the city haunts these films like a spectre: the city that has
been lost, the 'present' city that excludes and the possible
'cities of refuge' of the future. Offering new insights into the
cinematic portrayal of the figure of the migrant and how this is
constructed in relation to urbanization processes, this book will
appeal to students and scholars of sociology, film and media
studies, human geography, and urban studies.
Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book
considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the
periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in
structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as
examples.
Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban
condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social
harm. This book gathers cutting-edge treatments, research field
reports and critical examinations of crime and harm in cities, from
the disciplines of urban studies and criminology. The social,
economic and political composition of cities and the various
inequalities that mark out and drive the problem of crime in many
cities today are foregrounded. Readers follow a series of thematic
engagements, generating a deeper understanding of a range of key
areas that include problems of violence, social and spatial
divisions, housing, policing and the role of the urban economy in
issues of financial crime. This book comes at a time of rising
crime in many cities and complex responses by city administrations
and communities. It presents a critical, political thesis - that
crime in cities must be understood with reference to the varying
social structures, political forces and economic opportunities of
cities. These influences intersect to produce dramatic variations
in victimisation and attempts at social control, often felt most
strongly around class and gender divisions. To understand crime, we
must better understand the life of the city. Urban Criminology
seeks to present an integrated framework that brings to life these
key issues and seeks to enthuse students of our urban condition -
to locate the harms within it and to identify ways of reducing the
risk of crime. This book is ideal reading for all students with an
interest in cities, crime, community life, urban sociology and
urban cultures.
Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book
considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the
periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in
structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as
examples.
How do urbanization and development intersect with religious
dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this
timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and
Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos,
Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the
creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and
development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial
models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural
development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion.
Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and
infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with
individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change,
deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together
ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of
religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances
discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development
and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and
political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in
Africa.
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