Publication

2000-02-01 - Blackwell Publishing Limited

Language

English

Word Count

82,000 words, Guess

Page Count

328 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99043568
  • Goodreads1787006
  • LibraryThing5905544

Classifications

  • LCCHT321 .B65 2000

Description

"In this study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative anlaysis of new types of welfare and social maintenance policies of states and of cities in charge of strategic functions in the global economy. Focusing on concrete urban settings in the USA and in France, the book examines the relationship between national and local decision-makers, including their policy rhetorics meant to check moral panics over juvenile crime and violent events. Beyond such institutional responses, it examines the production of alternative norms and of new forms of politics displayed by the powerless in marginalized neighborhoods."--Jacket.

First Sentence

The purpose of this chapter is to test the possible correlation between the impact of the globalization of the economy on the city, the growth of inequalities and of power conflicts, and the violence and crime which may ensue in specific segregated urban areas.

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