Powers, liabilities and expertise in community safety: Comparative lessons for ‘urban security’ from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland

Gilling, Daniel; Hughes, Gordon; Bowden, Matt; Edwards, Adam; Henry, Alistair; Topping, John

doi:10.1177/1477370813482612

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“…On balance while there is increasing activity in both crime prevention and community safety, they have been germinated in a variety of domains: in urban regeneration; estate management; and early childhood interventions (Gilling et al, 2013). …”

Section: Key Aspects Of the Irish Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy: a case from south-west Dublin

Bowden¹

2017

Crime Prev Community Saf

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Section: Key Aspects Of the Irish Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy: a case from south-west Dublin

Bowden¹

2017

Crime Prev Community Saf

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“…Case studies have provided significant empirical evidence to show this geo-historic specificity that works within the field of security governance. Gilling et al (2013) in their analysis of urban security across Ireland and the UK argued that the so-called neo-liberal model of crime control said to dominate the Anglophone world can be shown to be regionally diverse, calling on policy talk, decisions, action and political traditions.…”

Section: Security Governance As a Nuanced Field Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The security field: Forming and expanding a Bourdieusian criminology

Bowden

2019

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Recent scholarly contributions have sought to integrate Bourdieusian sociology with criminology, centring for example, on the 'street' field as a symbolic and narrative space occupied by players within criminal justice. This article complements this broad objective by focusing on the changes in contemporary police and security governance that are pointing towards an emerging security field. Such a change can be read from the literature on plural policing and crime control, and involves the morphology of policing into nodes or assemblages of security producers. While there has been some attention to the formation of security networks, further empirical work is required to map the field dynamics using a Bourdieusian toolkit. This article explores the concept of the security field, presents some observations from current field research, and identifies some remaining questions and challenges for further conceptualisation and empirical research.

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“…Though separate, they are connected in a common storyline that has fostered policy in a wide range of countries (Gilling 2001;Crawford 2009;Lidskog and Persson 2012;Persson 2013;Garland 2001), though with divergent institutional expressions in different countries and localities (see e.g. Edwards and Hughes 2005a;Crawford 2009;Gilling et al 2013). The core elements of the policy storyline hold the following.…”

Section: Aiming For a Changed Understanding Of (Feelings Of) Unsafetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Crawford 2009), including Sweden (Lidskog and Persson 2012;Persson 2013). However, policy development in different countries and localities is not uniform (Crawford 2009;Gilling et al 2013), nor should these core assumptions be considered static. Alternative storylines are triggered by contextual differences and may ascribe different meanings and significance to these premises.…”

Section: Aiming For a Changed Understanding Of (Feelings Of) Unsafetymentioning

confidence: 99%

A policy problem that cannot escape its past – constraints on the reformation of safety policy

Persson

2015

Critical Policy Studies

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Critical Policy Studies. This paper has been peerreviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Persson, M. (2015) A policy problem that cannot escape its past: constraints on the reformation of safety policy.Critical Policy Studies, 9(2): 158-176 https://doi.org/10. 1080/19460171.2014.971038 Access to the published version may require subscription. AbstractWithin many current policy theories there is a tendency to first identify change and then explain it. A retrospective analysis of policy changes risks missing continuous processes and struggles for change as well as mechanisms of resistance to change. Taking this as a point of departure, this paper develops an understanding of the policy process as a struggle over meaning, as a way to allow for a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of policy change and continuity. This approach is illustrated by an analysis of the formation of public safety policy in Sweden. Alternative storylines giving 'new' meanings to the policy problem were strategically incorporated into the policy discourse. However, it is found that an ideational path-dependency of the policy constrains the possibility for problem reformulation and thereby also the possibility for policy change. The discourses that instantiated the policy problem not only affect the ways in which the problem is rendered thinkable for the purposes of its government, but also for policy analysts as well as the public. The analysis shows that it is crucial to understand the interrelations between different discourses (within policy, politics and research) to understand the mechanisms of policy change and continuity.

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Powers, liabilities and expertise in community safety: Comparative lessons for ‘urban security’ from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy: a case from south-west Dublin

Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy: a case from south-west Dublin

The security field: Forming and expanding a Bourdieusian criminology

A policy problem that cannot escape its past – constraints on the reformation of safety policy

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