International and Comparative Criminal Justice and Urban Governance Convergence and Divergence in Global, National and Local Settings
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 International and comparative criminal justice and urban governance
- PART 1 International criminal justice
- PART 2 Comparative penal policies
- PART 3 Comparative crime control and urban governance
- 15 Victimhood of the national? Denationalising sovereignty in crime control
- 16 Cosmopolitan liberty in the age of terrorism
- 17 Restorative justice and states' uneasy relationship with their publics
- 18 Governing nodal governance: the ‘anchoring’ of local security networks
- 19 From the shopping mall to the street corner: dynamics of exclusion in the governance of public space
- 20 Gating as governance: the boundaries spectrum in social and situational crime prevention
- 21 French perspectives on threats to peace and local social order
- 22 The question of scale in urban criminology
- Index
- References
20 - Gating as governance: the boundaries spectrum in social and situational crime prevention
from PART 3 - Comparative crime control and urban governance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2011
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 International and comparative criminal justice and urban governance
- PART 1 International criminal justice
- PART 2 Comparative penal policies
- PART 3 Comparative crime control and urban governance
- 15 Victimhood of the national? Denationalising sovereignty in crime control
- 16 Cosmopolitan liberty in the age of terrorism
- 17 Restorative justice and states' uneasy relationship with their publics
- 18 Governing nodal governance: the ‘anchoring’ of local security networks
- 19 From the shopping mall to the street corner: dynamics of exclusion in the governance of public space
- 20 Gating as governance: the boundaries spectrum in social and situational crime prevention
- 21 French perspectives on threats to peace and local social order
- 22 The question of scale in urban criminology
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
This chapter is concerned with crime prevention as part of a broader picture of urban governance. It focuses on residential areas in the UK and specifically on gated developments, a relatively new but fast-proliferating form of housing frequently cited as an exemplar of the current era's ‘fortress mentality’ (see Blakely and Snyder 1997; McKenzie 1994; and special issues of Environment and Planning B 2002 29: 3, GeoJournal 2006 66: 1–2, and Housing Studies 2005 20: 2). Academic debate has tended to concentrate on analysing the driving forces for gated communities as a particular urban form and on the implications of their recent growth for social exclusion and social cohesion, with less emphasis on whether gated communities are effective in preventing crime or merely cause displacement. The term ‘gated community’ is usually understood as a form of private residential neighbourhood defined by a physical boundary, as well as by a legal framework which relates only to that neighbourhood and which binds the residents contractually through their property rights (Atkinson et al. 2003).
Here it is argued that boundaries and enclosures of all kinds are now established as a key technique of governance in late modernity, the period from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present (Garland 2001). Walls are a visible sign of the current obsession with boundaries, and can be seen at many scales: the fortified border between Mexico and the USA, the West Bank wall, guarded refugee camps and gated communities.
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