Full Description
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.
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