Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities

Peršak, Nina

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“…A recent comparative work highlighted, among others, the role that space (management) plays in the social control of incivilities across European countries (Peršak 2016b). Zoning, for example, is a strategy used in Budapest, Hungary, to prevent incivilities said to arise from the behaviour of the homeless (such as going through trash and sleeping rough) by prohibiting the homeless in certain areas of the city -areas that belong to city centre and attract tourists.…”

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Urban space and the social control of incivilities: perceptions of space influencing the regulation of anti-social behaviour

Peršak

Ronco

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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a.dironco@essex.ac.uk. 3 In Belgium, for example, incivilities are tackled with "municipal administrative sanctions" (gementelijke administratieve sancties); in Germany and Slovenia, they are mostly considered violations (Ordnungswidrigkeiten, prekrški), which form part of the criminal law, even though they are not criminal offences in the strict sense. Antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs), massively used throughout England and Wales since 1999, before the new antisocial behaviour legislation of 2014 coming into force, were civil-law orders, when -if breached -gained a criminal law nature.

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Urban space and the social control of incivilities: perceptions of space influencing the regulation of anti-social behaviour

Peršak

Ronco

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…Over recent decades, many jurisdictions have focused attention on behaviours variously labelled as minor nuisances, incivilities or anti-social behaviours such as littering, noisy neighbours, through to loitering youths or on-street drug dealing (e.g. Millie 2009a;Peršak 2018). In the UK, successive governments have framed antisocial behaviour as a moral concern.…”

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Everyday moral judgements of anti-social behaviour

Adams

Millie

2020

Crime Prev Community Saf

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Over recent decades, there has been a lot of academic and political focus on antisocial behaviour, but less attention on the everyday moral judgements that can inform what we perceive to be antisocial. This is despite politicians' claims that antisocial behaviour reflects a moral decline. This article draws on a focus group study from the North West of England and on ideas from criminology and philosophy. People's assessments of antisocial behaviour are found to be informed by judgements of morality, most often in terms of 'doing what's right', having respect, and abiding by the Golden Rule, to 'do to others what you would have them do to you'. Understandings of antisocial behaviour are stretched so far by the public that they can range from littering through to tax avoidance, but what these behaviours have in common is their perceived breaching of our day-today moral standards. Implications are discussed.

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“…Prostitution is a divisive social issue and, as a case of 'morality politics' (Wagenaar and Altink, 2012), its governance is often shaped by conflicting ideological and political positions on the problematic intersection of sex and money. Reflecting normative (and sometimes moral) views on the phenomenon and often with varying objectives, most European countries regulate prostitution according to one of the following models of intervention: some legalize it under certain conditions (strict regulations, for example, are adopted in Austria, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands); others aim to abolish it by criminalizing clients (in countries that have adopted the abolitionist model, such as France, Norway, Iceland and Sweden); and yet others do not criminalize the selling and purchasing of sex but punitively sanction most prostitution-related activities as 'illegal' (for example, sex trafficking, procuring) or 'anti-social'/'uncivil' (for example, loitering and public soliciting) -the latter mostly through administrative fines, which have recently witnessed a resurgence in some European countries (Di Ronco and Peršak, 2014;Peršak, 2017;Selmini, 2005Selmini, , 2012Selmini and Crawford, 2016;Villacampa and Torres, 2013;Villacampa, 2017). This last approach is often referred to as 'partial criminalization'; it is adopted in England and Wales, Belgium, Italy and Spain, among others.…”

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Law in action: Local-level prostitution policies and practices and their effects on sex workers

Ronco

2020

European Journal of Criminology

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This article comparatively analyses city-based prostitution policies and practices and their effects on sex workers in countries that have adopted a partial criminalization model of intervention towards prostitution – Belgium and Italy. The two case studies selected for this research – the cities of Antwerp (Belgium) and Catania (Italy) – were chosen for their adopted local approach towards prostitution in designated red-light districts (RLDs): whereas prostitution has been collaboratively governed in Antwerp, it has simply been tolerated in Catania. By considering the factors that have led to the development of prostitution policies and practices in these two cities, and their characteristics both within and outside the two cities’ RLDs, this article compares and analyses the effects produced on sex workers across city areas. The study revealed a number of similarities between the two local cases considered: local practices towards sex work in both cities have been shaped by urban regeneration in RLDs, and by concerns about nuisance and crime across city areas (irregular immigration and trafficking, in particular); in all instances, they have had similar exclusionary effects on sex workers – and especially on the migrant women among them. The study also identified two key differences in the practices towards prostitution adopted in these two cities: they differed in the level of access to support services offered to sex workers and in the pervasiveness of proactive police control. The article concludes by arguing that all these local practices – including the ones that are seemingly different – ultimately converge in their ethos: they reinforce the socially constructed status of migrant sex workers as either law-breakers or trafficked victims to be subject to control and, in the latter case, also protection.

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Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities

Cited by 16 publications

References 22 publications

Urban space and the social control of incivilities: perceptions of space influencing the regulation of anti-social behaviour

Urban space and the social control of incivilities: perceptions of space influencing the regulation of anti-social behaviour

Everyday moral judgements of anti-social behaviour

Law in action: Local-level prostitution policies and practices and their effects on sex workers

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