2016
DOI: 10.3390/laws5020016
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Institutional Perceptions of Internal Security on the Relationship between “Sensitive Urban Zones” and Immigrant Criminality

Abstract: The Portuguese social sciences literature has recently begun to make references to so-called "sensitive urban zones" (SUZs), described as vulnerable zones on the outskirts of big cities (e.g., Lisbon and Setúbal) where the population suffers from poor socioeconomic conditions. The same literature has also described these zones as being areas where migrants, especially people from Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP), and the unemployed tend to congregate. Since the beginning of the century, these area… Show more

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“…7 A societal disruption linked, on the one hand, to the inefficacy of the programs concerned with social inclusion; and to a social process of criminalization of certain young men, on the other hand. Several studies have concluded there's a connection between class, race and the criminalisation process, which selectively polices and criminalises the behaviour of certain youngsters and young adults, disproportionately drawn from peripheral neighbourhoods or urban zones in the metropolitan areas (in our case, from the Lisbon and Oporto metropolitan areas), usually seen as sensitive or problematic neighbourhoods (Guia and Pedroso 2016, Bateman 2020. Moreover, these youngsters can be seen as the "damned of inclusion", 8 since they seem to have been left behind (or even by-passed) by the several social inclusion programs created in these last 20 to 30 years.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…7 A societal disruption linked, on the one hand, to the inefficacy of the programs concerned with social inclusion; and to a social process of criminalization of certain young men, on the other hand. Several studies have concluded there's a connection between class, race and the criminalisation process, which selectively polices and criminalises the behaviour of certain youngsters and young adults, disproportionately drawn from peripheral neighbourhoods or urban zones in the metropolitan areas (in our case, from the Lisbon and Oporto metropolitan areas), usually seen as sensitive or problematic neighbourhoods (Guia and Pedroso 2016, Bateman 2020. Moreover, these youngsters can be seen as the "damned of inclusion", 8 since they seem to have been left behind (or even by-passed) by the several social inclusion programs created in these last 20 to 30 years.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…Sensitive urban areas are a recent sociological term given to those metropolitan areas that are part of a so-called "urban circuit of disadvantages", characterised by: lack of a suitable living environment, lack of employment opportunities for the population, lack of social services, lack of education and professional training of the inhabitants, unemployment and indolence. All of these factors give the urban space a negative external perception, with residents often falling victim to the stigma of the place they live in [7,8]. On the other hand, disadvantaged spaces can be studied based on the intensity of phenomena that degrade the way and environment of life of the population of cities, as well as the socio-spatial concentration of these phenomena [4,9].…”
Section: Conceptual Aspectsmentioning
confidence: 99%