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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 of the 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence
• Author: Matt Bowden
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 228
• EAN: 9781137330352
• ISBN: 113733035X
• ID: 04771114
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 428 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 170 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. November 2014

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