Crime, disorder and symbolic violence : governing the urban periphery

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Title:

Crime, disorder and symbolic violence : governing the urban periphery

Author:

Bowden, Matt.

ISBN:

9781137330352

Personal Author:

Bowden, Matt.

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Physical Description:

xii, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Urban Disorder and Symbolic Violence: Opening the Case; A Bourdieusian Perspective: Governing Territory and Subjects -- The Theoretical Case: Governing Crime and Disorder in the Urban Periphery in Ireland, 991-2008: The Dublin Urban Periphery, 1960-2008: A Political Economy; Symbolic Power and the Crisis of Territoriality: Urban Disorder in the 1990s; Symbolic Power in Three Peripheral Settings; Two Models In Action: Symbolic Violence Versus Ethico-Craft -- Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence.

Subject Term:

Delinquenza minorile -- Irlanda.

Delinquenza -- Prevenzione -- Irlanda.

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This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power to present an analytic tool-kit for a critically engaged public criminology.