Policing cities : urban securitization and regulation in a twenty-first century world / edited by Randy K. Lippert and Kevin Walby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lippert, Randy K., 1966-

Walby, Kevin, 1981-

Series:

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 12.

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law enforcement.

Police.

Community policing.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

xvi, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

"Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and the conceptual issues these practices raise. Chapters cover many of the world's major cities, including New York, Beijing, Paris, London, Berlin, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Melbourne, and Toronto, as well as other urban areas in Britain, United States, South Africa, Germany, Australia and Georgia. The collection examines the activities and reforms of the traditional public police but also those of emerging public and private policing agents and spaces that fall outside the public police's purview and which previously have received little attention. It explores dramatic changes in public policing arrangements and strategies, exclusion of urban homeless people, new forms of urban surveillance and legal regulation, and securitization and militarization of urban spaces. The core argument in the volume is that cities are more than mere background for policing, securitization and regulation. Policing and the city are intimately intertwined. This collection also reveals commonalities in the empirical interests, methodological preferences, and theoretical concerns of scholars working in these various disciplines and breaks down barriers among them. This is the first collection on urban policing, regulation, and securitization with such a multi-disciplinary and international character. This collection will have a wide readership among upper level undergraduate and graduate level students in several disciplines and countries and can be used in geography/urban studies, legal and socio-legal studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, and criminology courses."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Nicholas Blomley

Introduction: how the world's cities are policed, regulated, and securitized / Randy K. Lippert and Kevin Walby

Policing urban insecurities through visible patrols: managing public expectations in times of fiscal restraint / Anna Barker and Adam Crawford

From revolution to government, from contradictions to harmony: urban community policing in post-Deng China / Gary Sigley

To know the city: urban policing innovations in the post-Soviet Republic of Georgia / Matthew A. Light

Policing-centered community cohesion in two British cities / Don Mitchell, Kafui Attoh, and Lynn A. Staeheli

Zonal banning and public order in urban Australia / Darren Palmer and Ian Warren

Polychrome policing in German cities: extending the state's monopoly on the use of force / Volker Eick

Rescaling security strategies: state tactics and citizen responses to violence in Mexico City / Diane E. Davis and Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa

Legal tails: policing American cities through animals / Irus Braverman

Reconfiguring urban Britain: policing, spatial justice and postmodern (in)security / John Flint

Governing security in public spaces: urban improvement districts in South Africa / Julie Berg

Get lost! The impact of punitive policy on homeless people's life chances in Berlin / Jürgen von Mahs

Contentious policing in Paris: the street as a space for emotional public solidarity / Virginie Milliot and Stéphane Tonnelat

Municipal corporate security and risk mitigation companies in Canadian cities: a new military urbanism? / Kevin Walby and Randy K. Lippert

Securitization strategies: gated communities and market-rate co-operatives in New York / Setha Low

Urban securitization in Mexico City: a new public order? / Nelson Arteaga Botello

Pretext securitization of Boston's public realm after 9/11: motives, actors and a role for planners / Susan Silberberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415540339

041554033X

OCLC:

792876218