Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence

Bowden, Matt

doi:10.1057/9781137330369

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“…Indeed developments in crime prevention and locally based informal crime control stem from a variety of sources. For example, the closure of Industrial Schools in the 1970s gave rise to a greater diffusion of social prevention initiatives (Sargent 2014;Bowden and Topping 2016); youth crime and disorder prevention in urban peripheral neighbourhoods emerged in direct response to problems associated with youth disorder in urban periphery in the 1990s (Bowden 2006;Bowden 2014;Bowden and Higgins, 2000).…”

Section: Key Aspects Of the Irish Contextmentioning

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“…In addition the 'interface' constituted the boundary lines between largely homogenous working class communities whose residents originated from the post 1970s population dispersal from the inner city (Bowden 2014;Punch 2002;Byrne, 1984) and a new diverse group in need of social housing including migrants from Europe and Africa. The issue of safety in these two sites was therefore highly challenging because they were complicated by issues of class, race and ethnicity.…”

Section: The Complexities Of "Safety": Manifestations and Impact In Tmentioning

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Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy: a case from south-west Dublin

Bowden¹

2017

Crime Prev Community Saf

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Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy: a case from south-west Dublin

Bowden¹

2017

Crime Prev Community Saf

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“…Furthermore, the existence of monopolistic players that have enough power and violent capacity in order to display territorial control and to enforce a criminal order explains low levels of violence in illegal markets (Bowden 2014;Jacobs 1999;Levi 2007;Reuter 1985Reuter , 2009. Nevertheless, low levels of violence in the context of competitive organized crime operations, illegal markets, or places with the absence of strong statehood can also be explained by a) arrangements between extralegal groups (Idler 2019;Shortland 2019) or b) arrangements between extralegal groups and the state (Barnes 2017;Sobering and Auyero 2019;Willis 2015).…”

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Street Urban Peace in Contested Informalities: The Hidden Face of Colombia’s War on Drugs

Mantilla

2021

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

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Law enforcement interventions in drug markets require policy coordination to prevent collateral outcomes that might harm vulnerable people under criminal control and spread crime across places. This paper analyzes street-level peace building in the inner city at the frontline of the ongoing urban war on drugs in Colombia. Building on the emergent literature on criminal governance and using crime script models, the paper argues that behind the chaos that in appearance prevails in open-air drug markets, illegal economies in Colombia's urban centers are ruled by schemes that set parallel mechanisms of order, social control, and distribution. Furthermore, the paper addresses the ways in which street-level bureaucracies and therapeutic policing interventions can become a way of building urban proximity, connectedness, and trust in the context of contested informalities.

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“…al 2009), and youth crime prevention (Bowden 2014). Studies of offenders also draw on Bourdieu's conceptual framework.…”

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Street talk and Bourdieusian criminology: Bringing narrative to field theory

Sandberg

Fleetwood

2016

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Abstract:The work of Bourdieu has increasingly gained interest in criminology. This theoretical framework is rich and arguably the most sophisticated approach to social inequality and difference in sociology. It has however, been criticized for bias towards the structural aspects of social life, and for leaving little space for the constitutive, and creative role of language. We argue for the inclusion of narrative for understanding street fields. Based on qualitative interviews with 40 incarcerated drug dealers in Norway, we describe the narrative repertoire of the street field, including stories of crime business, violence, drugs, and the 'hard life'. The narrative repertoire is constituted by street capital, but also upholds and produces this form of capital.Street talk is embedded in objective social and economic structures and displayed in the actors' habitus. Narratives bind the street field together: producing social practices and social structure.

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Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence

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Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy: a case from south-west Dublin

Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy: a case from south-west Dublin

Street Urban Peace in Contested Informalities: The Hidden Face of Colombia’s War on Drugs

Street talk and Bourdieusian criminology: Bringing narrative to field theory

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