Dealing with disorder: Social control in the post-industrial city

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-30

  Beckett, Katherine ^a   Herbert, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

broken windows policing; neoliberalism; spatial governmentality; urban social control

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349075339     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480607085792     Document Type: Article

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