Lecture notes
Urban change: crime and control
- Module
- Key Issues In Criminology
- Institution
- City University (City)
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SG2043- Key Issues in CriminologLecture 4
Urban Change, ‘Crime’ & Control
, LECTURE OVERVIEW
❖The city/urban environment as a
site of ‘crime’ and disorder
❖ The city as a space of social
control
❖The city as a zone of social
inequality/exclusion
, ‘CRIME’ & THE CITY
❖The city as a site of ‘crime’ and disorder, inspiring “respectable fears
(Pearson, 1983) about overcrowding, mixing & safety
❖‘Crime’ as a quintessentially urban phenomenon/reality and urban s
life as a spatial, moral and socio-political problem to be monitored,
regulated and controlled: Targeted, surveilled, securitised, walled,
barbwired and patrolled
❖Perceptions of ‘society’, ‘community’, ‘deviance’ and ‘conflict’ becom
designed into, associated with and represented by urban geography—
metaphors for physical locations and social spaces where hierarchies
power, social relations and social structures take shape.
, CITY & ‘CRIME’ IN CRIMINOLOGY
❖Charles Booth’s “poverty map” of London, identifying the cap
“lowest class” as “vicious” and semi-criminal”— in crude, mor
taxonomic terms that connect access to wealth with propensit
‘criminality’
❖Florence Kelley’s maps of Chicago in the form of a “Presentati
Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago”, ou
where wealth & different ethnic/nationality groups are concen
❖W.E.B. Du Bois’ charts, diagrams and maps illustrating the life
African Americans in the state of Georgia
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