Housing, Urban Governance and Anti-Social Behaviour [electronic resource] : Perspectives, Policy and Practice
Flint, John.
Flint, JohnContributor
Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press,
2006.
This book is the first comprehensive volume exploring an issue of growing importance to policy makers, academics, housing practitioners and students. It brings together contributions from the most prominent scholars in the field to provide a range of theoretical perspectives, critical analysis and empirical research findings about the role of housing and urban governance in addressing anti-social behaviour.
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Cover; HOUSING, URBAN GOVERNANCE AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR - Perspectives, policy and practice; Contents; List of tables, figures and photographs; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; What is anti-social behaviour?; Housing, urban governance and anti-social behaviour; The structure of the book; Part 1 - The definition and construction of anti-social behaviour in the UK; ONE - Housing and the new governance of conduct; TWO - Governing tenants: from dreadful enclosures to dangerous places; THREE - Labelling: constructing definitions of anti-social behaviour?
FOUR - Anti-social behaviour:voices from the front lineFIVE - Spaces of discipline and control: the compounded citizenship of social renting; Part 2 - Legal techniques and measures utilised by social landlords to address anti-social behaviour; SIX - Tenancy agreements: a mechanism for governing anti-social behaviour?; SEVEN - The changing legal framework: from landlords to agents of social control; EIGHT - Social landlords, anti-social behaviour and countermeasures; Part 3 - The emerging mechanisms of addressing anti-social behaviour in housing governance
NINE - Evaluating the Shelter Inclusion Project: a floating support service for households accused of anti-social behaviourTEN - Tackling anti-social behaviour: an evaluation of the Dundee Families Project; ELEVEN - Policing and community safety in residential areas: the mixed economy of visible patrols; TWELVE - Gated communities: a response to, or remedy for, anti-social behaviour?; Part 4 - Studies of housing and anti-social behaviour from an international perspective; THIRTEEN - Housing and anti-social behaviour in Australia
FOURTEEN - Testing urban forms: city, control and 'urban violence' in FranceFIFTEEN - Residential stability among adolescents in public housing: a risk factor for delinquent and violent behaviour?; SIXTEEN - Conclusion; Index
This book is the first comprehensive volume exploring an issue of growing importance to policy makers, academics, housing practitioners and students. It brings together contributions from the most prominent scholars in the field to provide a range of theoretical perspectives, critical analysis and empirical research findings about the role of housing and urban governance in addressing anti-social behaviour.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Deviant behavior.
Housing.
Housing policy.
Urban policy.
Deviant behavior
Housing
Housing policy
Urban policy
Social Welfare & Social Work
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Change
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency