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Book SynopsisBringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other. Progressive urbanisation not only influences people's living conditions, their well-being and health but may also generate social conflict and consequently fuel disorder and crime.
Rooted in interdisciplinary scholarship, this book considers a range of urban issues, focussing specifically on their sensory, emotive, power and structural dimensions. The visual, audio and olfactory components that offend or harm are inspected, including how urban social control agencies respond to violations of imposed sensory regimes. Emotive dimensions examined include the consideration of people emotions and sensibilities in the perception of incivilities, in the shaping of social control to deviant phenomena, and their role in activating or suppressing people's resistance towards othe
Trade Review
A bold, provocative and much needed collection that pushes past the boundaries of conventional understandings of urban incivilities. It is a landmark achievement, making a compelling case for a criminology of the senses and is fully attuned to how the landscapes of disorder, crime, justice and social control are experienced in the city.
Eamonn Carrabine, Professor of Criminology, Sociology Department, University of Essex, UK
This fascinating and timely book—with its focus on power and structural inequalities as well as the emotional and sensory dimensions of harm and disorder—makes an original and invaluable contribution to the burgeoning ‘field’ of urban criminology.
Gareth Millington, Senior Lecturer, University of York, UK
This is a very impressive collection and contribution to critical criminology! It undertakes analysis at the intersection of the senses, affective registers, power/control in examining crime, social harm and disorder in urban spaces; contributes to advances in urban and sensory criminology; and crucially to criminology as a European and global project. A must read and core text for criminological theory modules and indeed, for all researchers interested in urban studies.
Maggie O’Neill, Professor of Sociology & Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland
Thinking about cities through the senses and emotion can be a revealing experience to criminologists and urban scholars interested in issues such as harm, disorder and incivility, which this edited book shows very clearly. It is a very welcome and even necessary contribution to urban criminology.
Lucas Melgaço, Professor of Urban Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Table of Contents1. Incivilities, harm and social control in urban space Part One 2. Exploring sound and noise in the urban environment: Tensions between cultural expression and municipal control, health and inequality, police power and resistance 3.Sounds dangerous: Black music subcultures as victims of state regulation and social control 4.Offending sights and urban governance: Expectations of city aesthetics and spatial responses to the unsightly 5.Green criminology perspective on light pollution 6.When the city smells: Perceptions of decay and physical disorder in Rome Part Two 7.Emotion and the city: Emotive dimensions of incivilities and of their urban social control 8.Power at play: The policing of sex work across two European cities 9.Structural violence, deviance and social control in the urban life and space 10.The sensory, emotive and power dimensions of incivilities and their social control in the city
