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Drawing on unique longitudinal community-level data in Brisbane,
this book entwines current ecological theories of crime with key
debates on the relevance of ‘community’ in contemporary urban
life to examine the spatial and temporal relationships between
community structure, community social capital, informal social
control and the occurrence of crime and disorder. Crime and
Disorder in Community Context extends what is known about the
concentration of crime in particular types of places, presenting a
broad reaching explication of how community structural
characteristics, community regulatory processes and crime influence
each other over time. It looks at how growing levels of ethnic
diversity, income inequality and increasing immigrant
concentrations at the community level influence processes necessary
for the regulation of crime; the crime control processes for
various crime problems in different types of communities; the
extent that exogenous shocks, like the 2011 Brisbane flood disaster
and the global financial crisis impact on crime, crime prevention
and crime control; and engages readers with the methodological
complexities associated with the longitudinal study of crime and
disorder in contemporary urban communities. An accessible and
compelling read, this will appeal to students and scholars of
criminology, sociology, geography, cultural studies and all those
interested in the relationship between crime and community.
In a contemporary setting of increasing social division and
marginalisation, Policing Hate Crime interrogates the complexities
of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing practices. Hate
crime has become a barometer for contemporary police relations with
vulnerable and marginalised communities. But how do police
effectively lead conversations with such communities about problems
arising from prejudice? Contemporary police are expected to be
active agents in the pursuit of social justice and human rights by
stamping out prejudice and group-based animosity. At the same time,
police have been criticised in over-policing targeted communities
as potential perpetrators, as well as under-policing these same
communities as victims of crime. Despite this history, the demand
for impartial law enforcement requires police to change their
engagement with targeted communities and kindle trust as priorities
in strengthening their response to hate crime. Drawing upon a
research partnership between police and academics, this book
entwines current law enforcement responses with key debates on the
meaning of hate crime to explore the potential for
misunderstandings of hate crime between police and communities, and
illuminates ways to overcome communication difficulties. This book
will be important reading for students taking courses in hate
crime, as well as victimology, policing, and crime and community.
In a contemporary setting of increasing social division and
marginalisation, Policing Hate Crime interrogates the complexities
of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing practices. Hate
crime has become a barometer for contemporary police relations with
vulnerable and marginalised communities. But how do police
effectively lead conversations with such communities about problems
arising from prejudice? Contemporary police are expected to be
active agents in the pursuit of social justice and human rights by
stamping out prejudice and group-based animosity. At the same time,
police have been criticised in over-policing targeted communities
as potential perpetrators, as well as under-policing these same
communities as victims of crime. Despite this history, the demand
for impartial law enforcement requires police to change their
engagement with targeted communities and kindle trust as priorities
in strengthening their response to hate crime. Drawing upon a
research partnership between police and academics, this book
entwines current law enforcement responses with key debates on the
meaning of hate crime to explore the potential for
misunderstandings of hate crime between police and communities, and
illuminates ways to overcome communication difficulties. This book
will be important reading for students taking courses in hate
crime, as well as victimology, policing, and crime and community.
Drawing on unique longitudinal community-level data in Brisbane,
this book entwines current ecological theories of crime with key
debates on the relevance of 'community' in contemporary urban life
to examine the spatial and temporal relationships between community
structure, community social capital, informal social control and
the occurrence of crime and disorder. Crime and Disorder in
Community Context extends what is known about the concentration of
crime in particular types of places, presenting a broad reaching
explication of how community structural characteristics, community
regulatory processes and crime influence each other over time. It
looks at how growing levels of ethnic diversity, income inequality
and increasing immigrant concentrations at the community level
influence processes necessary for the regulation of crime; the
crime control processes for various crime problems in different
types of communities; the extent that exogenous shocks, like the
2011 Brisbane flood disaster and the global financial crisis impact
on crime, crime prevention and crime control; and engages readers
with the methodological complexities associated with the
longitudinal study of crime and disorder in contemporary urban
communities. An accessible and compelling read, this will appeal to
students and scholars of criminology, sociology, geography,
cultural studies and all those interested in the relationship
between crime and community.
Place, Race and Politics presents an integrated analysis of the
social and political processes that combined to construct a
media-driven 'crisis' concerning African youth crime in the city of
Melbourne, Australia. Combining original research and analysis
alongside published sources, the authors carefully dissect the
anatomy of a racialized and politicized public discourse and delve
into the profound impact of this on African-Australian communities
in Melbourne. Drawing on political and media analysis and
community-based research, the authors investigate how South
Sudanese Australians in Melbourne came to be identified,
supposedly, as a unique threat to community safety, the role played
by the media, state and federal politics, the policing and
perceptions of race in this process, and the physical and emotional
impacts on affected communities of the law and order crisis
concerning 'African crime'. While deeply rooted in local
conditions, the book resonates with similar examples of the
criminalization and othering of racialized communities, the
surveillance and exclusion of 'crimmigrants', and with popular
punitivism and the rise of far-right politics globally in response
to deeply felt anxieties about rapid social, economic and cultural
change.
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