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

Abstract

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.

Representations of environmental protest on the ground and in the cloud: The NOTAP protests in activist practice and social visual media

“…To explore representations of protest on Twitter, we collected tweets (#NOTAP tweets) via our ‘Listener’ tool (see Di Ronco et al, 2018) from October 2018 until the end of June 2019 ( N = 22,790). 2 Twitter has been selected over other social media predominantly because of the technical accessibility of its textual and visual content to all users and for its key role in the development of counter-narratives by grassroots movements, including in the Italian context (Vicari, 2013).…”

“…Campbell, 2013Campbell, , 2016Hayward, 2012Hayward, , 2016. From being solely in the background and taken for granted, physical space has started to be conceptualised as something that is shaped by its lived experience and socio-cultural factors (Kindynis, 2017;Persak and Ronco, 2018), and is ultimately co-produced in a continual flux (Campbell, 2013).…”

“…to create dissonant and co-present “interactional spaces” (Hayward, 2012: 457) which blur the boundaries of actual and virtual (urban) worlds’ (Campbell, 2013: 34). In other words, DCTs are key to the challenging of dominant representations of space, which shape attitudes and responses to behaviour occurring in it (see also Persak and Di Ronco, 2018).…”

Direct and Indirect Impacts of Housing Tenure Mix on Antisocial Behavior: A Study of Hong Kong’s Private Housing Communities

“…The term "ASB" is commonly used in Australia and the United Kingdom (UK) (Yau 2012a). In other jurisdictions, ASB may be defined as "incivilities", "neighbor nuisances", "petty offences" or "quality-of-life crimes" (Yau 2012a;Peršak and Ronco 2018).…”

From harmless incivilities to not-so serious organised crime activities. The expanded realm of European crime prevention and some suggestions on how to limit it

“…As put quite eloquently by Crawford (2009: 15), contemporary CP has put its "emphasis on wider social problems, including public perceptions and fear of crime, quality of life, broadly defined harms, incivilities and disorder". To enhance people's 'quality of life' and reduce fears and perceived 'risks', crime control at the local level has also intertwined with urban revitalisation projects -what is known as 'gentrification' -in many European cities (Peršak and Di Ronco, 2018).…”