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"This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. In the last two decades, criminological narratives have advanced a series of propositions on the nature ofthe late modern risk society. These narratives have based their observations primarily upon trends in the core, developed societies. This book presents an alternative perspective, exploring the nuances of the smaller scale and offering a rich insight into the historical and spatial specifics leading to the emergence of social crime prevention as a form of governing.Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden shows how concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power can provide an analytic tool-kit for a critically engaged public criminology. This book argues that crime prevention can mobilise a type of moral curriculum and as such is a symbolic struggle for the domination of the subject and the domination of territory. Revealing a counter-practice which has the ability to reinvigorate social citizenship, this book will appeal to scholars across Criminology, Sociology, Crime Prevention and Community Safety. "--
List of contents
Author Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Urban Disorder and Symbolic Violence: Opening the Case 2. A Bourdieusian Perspective: Governing Territory and Subjects PART II: THE THEORETICAL CASE: GOVERNING CRIME AND DISORDER IN THE URBAN PERIPHERY IN IRELAND, 1991-2008 Introduction to Part Two 3. The Dublin Urban Periphery, 1960 to 2008: A Political Economy 4. Symbolic Power and the Crisis of Territoriality: Urban Disorder in the 1990s 5. Symbolic Power in Three Peripheral Settings 6. Two Models In Action: Symbolic Violence Versus Ethico-Craft PART III: CONCLUSION 7. Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence
About the author
Matt Bowden is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.
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"Matt Bowden has produced a rich, nuanced and complex analysis of the emergence of youth crime prevention in Ireland ... . The detailed research - a combination of ethnography, participation and interviewing, across some 10 years of fieldwork in a series of youth projects - is preceded by an effective, though brief, political economy of Irish urban redevelopment ... ." (Peter Squires, Urban Studies, Vol. 53 (1), January, 2016)
"This book makes a significant contribution to both urban sociology and Irish criminology in terms of elaborating a compelling sociological framework for the study of youth and youth crime containment on the Irish urban periphery. ... This is a great read. ... This book would be of considerable interest to those engaged in sociology, public policy, crime, and the law." (Mary P. Corcoran, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2016)
'Matthew Bowden's book Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence represents a theoretically innovative, research-based contribution to the nascent body of sociological work on plural policing and the often hybrid forms of governing the urban periphery and in particular of young people in these supposed 'neo-liberal' times. Drawing on both Bourdieuian theoretical insights and a broadly realist conceptual framing, Bowden offers a compelling case study of Dublin's own 'urban periphery' and its contested youth governance. The book adds to the growing reputation of critical criminological scholarship in Ireland. The analysis presented and its broader policy and policy implications will also interest and engage advanced students and researchers throughout the international field of sociological criminology.' - Professor Gordon Hughes, Chair in Criminology, Cardiff University
