Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence: Governing the Urban Periphery

By Matt Bowden

Book Overview

This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power to present an analytic tool-kit for a critically engaged public criminology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134946094X
• ISBN13: 9781349460946
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"