The Social Control of Cities? by Sophie Body-Gendrot - 9780631205210

The Social Control of Cities?\n\nA Comparative Perspective\n\nSophie Body-Gendrot (Author)\n\n9780631205210, Wiley\n\nPaperback / softback, published 8 January 2000\n\n336 pages\n23.1 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.49 kg\n\n\""This book is extremely important for anyone interested in crime and violence in urban areas. The author situates urban violence and responses to it within the larger processes of globalization and of growth of inequalitites within and between societies. By using case studies of different cities in different countries--US, Britain, and Frnace--she examines the impact of global, national, and local policies and economic trends on various cities' responses to crime and violence.\"" Choice\n \n\""This is a well-documented and perceptive study.\"" David Downes, London School of Economics, UK\n\""... does a creditable job of demonstrating both historically and comparatively, how cities within the limits of distinct national traditions are actually extraordinarily diverse and yet extr]