“…Whereas this may always have been the case, since the 1990s many authors have emphasized that in the context of neoliberalism, neo-conservatism and urban revanchism, 'policing space' has gained in importance as '[c]riminality is spatialized … it is identified with certain kinds of social presence in the urban landscape' (Smith, 1998: 3). On the ideological level, this spatialization of crime is produced by populist criminological theories such as 'broken windows' (Belina, 2006: 135-55;Herbert and Brown, 2006) as well as in traditional 'geography of crime' (Peet, 1975, Belina 2006, in political discourse (Schreiber, 2005) and in the media (Mattissek, 2005). When these ideological spatializations of crime are turned into law, its structuring impact on police work and the urban fabric is intensified.…”