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Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence Governing the Urban Periphery /

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 enga...

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Main Author: Bowden, M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Subjects:
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Criminology.
Human geography.
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology.
Crime and Society.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Human Geography.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330369
Summary: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.
Physical Description:XII, 228 p. online resource.
ISBN:9781137330369

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