The Social Control of Cities?
A Comparative Perspective
Published on 15. July 2011
328 pages
978-1-4443-9920-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this ground-breaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginalisation in contemporary advanced societies.
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"This book is extremely important for anyone interested in crimeand violence in urban areas. The author situates urban violence andresponses to it within the larger processes of globalization and ofgrowth of inequalitites within and between societies. By using casestudies of different cities in different countries--US, Britain,and Frnace--she examines the impact of global, national, and localpolicies and economic trends on various cities' responses to crimeand violence." Choice "This is a well-documented and perceptive study." DavidDownes, London School of Economics, UK "... does a creditable job of demonstrating both historicallyand comparatively, how cities within the limits of distinctnational traditions are actually extraordinarily diverse and yetextremely limited in the ways they manage social control."Canadian Journal of Sociology Online 'This comprehensive cross-cultural study of urban tensionsand insecurities in an era of globalization is a major contributionto the literature on changing western cities. SophieBody-Gendrot's original synthesis of a wide range of urbanstudies provides new insights on the dynamic changes in modernurban life." - William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and LindaL. Geyser University Professor, HarvardUniversityMore details
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Sophie Body-Gendrot is a CNRS researcher and a professorof political science and American studies at the Sorbonne and theInstitute of Political Science in Paris. Her research focuses oncomparative public, urban unrest, ethnic and racial issues andcitizen participation. Among her books are Ville et Violence(1993), The Urban Moment (1999, edited with R. Beauregard)and a taskforce report written with N. Le Guennec on urban violencefor the French Home Secretary in 1998.
Content
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Foreword.
Series Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introductions: Tolerance and Suppression..
Part I: The Politics of Depacification.
Economic Globalization and Urban Unrest.
Law-Enforcement in the USA.
Solidarity and Social Prevention in France..
Part II. The Politics of Reconciliation.
Managing Polarization: New York and Chicago.
Managing Polarization: Paris, Marseilles, and Lyons.
Conclusion: The Social Control of Cities?.
References.
Index.
