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The Social Control of Cities: A Comparative Perspective (Studies in Urban and Social Change) (Paperback)

by Sophie Body-Gendrot (Author) "The purpose of this chapter is to test the possible correlation between the impact of the globalization of the economy on the city, the growth..." (more)
Key Phrases: New York, Greater Lyons, Seine St-Denis (more...)

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"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

"This is a well-documented and perceptive study." David Downes, London School of Economics, UK

"... 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 extremely limited in the ways they manage social control." Canadian Journal of Sociology Online

‘This comprehensive cross-cultural study of urban tensions and insecurities in an era of globalization is a major contribution to the literature on changing western cities. Sophie Body-Gendrot’s original synthesis of a wide range of urban studies provides new insights on the dynamic changes in modern urban life." – William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University

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In this ground-breaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginalisation in contemporary advanced societies.

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Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (April 14, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0631205217
ISBN-13: 978-0631205210
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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The purpose of this chapter is to test the possible correlation between the impact of the globalization of the economy on the city, the growth of inequalities and of power conflicts, and the violence and crime which may ensue in specific segregated urban areas. Read the first page

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New York, Greater Lyons, Seine St-Denis, Youth Guidance, Vera Institute, World War, Fortune Society, Board of Education, Grand Littoral, Robert Taylor Homes, United States, Greater Paris, Minister of the Interior, President Clinton, Prime Minister, Rikers Island, The Politics of Depac, Willie Horton, Clinton Administration, Cook County, Mayor Dinkins, Mayor Giuliani, South Bronx, Wall Street, Clifford Shaw

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This book cites 100 books:

The Urbanization of Injustice by Andy Merrifield on 5 pages
The Urbanization of Injustice by Ed A. Merrifield on 5 pages
Metropolitan Crime Patterns by Robert M. Figlio in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The Urban Moment: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews) by Robert A. Beauregard in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Crime and Inequality by John Hagan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Studies in Urban and Social Change) by Stephen Graham in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Cities and Visitors: Regulating People, Markets, and City Space (Studies in Urban and Social Change) by Lily M. Hoffman in Front Matter, Table of Contents, and page 50
Cities of Europe: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion (Studies in Urban and Social Change) by Yuri Kazepov in Front Matter, page 252, and Back Matter
Cities and Visitors: Regulating People, Markets, and City Space (Studies in Urban and Social Change) by Lily M. Hoffman in Front Matter, Table of Contents, and page 50
Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities (Studies in Urban and Social Change) by Romain Garbaye in Front Matter, and Back Matter

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5.0 out of 5 stars A comparative study of violence: France and the USA, October 8, 2000

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Sophisticated observers have realized for a long time that the United States and France have much to learn from one another when it comes to combatting violence. But discussions on this topic very often are based on very traditional and reified concepts of what constitutes youth violence and with rather stereotyped ideas about the social structure of the urban scene in Paris, New York, Chicago, Lyons and Marseilles. In this book by Sophie Body-Gendrot, the well-known professor of political science at the Sorbonne, there is no room for such cliches or conventional thinking. The author dares to tackle the complex relationship between the youth violence one sees today in the inner-cities of New York or certain suburbs of Paris and the overarching social-political reality of contemporary society: world economic globalization whose sites are often concentrated in these very cities. But the ordinary observer rarely if ever connects the two phenomena. Body-Gendrot's careful reading of a very large body of prior research and her analysis of these data is unflinching as she attempts to look at "the specificity of socio-cultural forms through which the general dynamics of urban violence and the state's management of social disorder" operate differently in various large U.S. and French cities. Her unique contribution to the literature is to add the all-important variable of globalization to the mix in attempting to explain urban violence. The book takes a detailed look at the French approach to crime prevention -- both historically and contemporaneously -- which puts high emphasis on a search for equality, social prevention, welfare, and state intervention for the treatment of marginality and as a check on uprisings as well as the American one which relies on individualism, self-help, deterrence and punishment. . . nad, of course, capital punishment. In seeking to understand the choices both societies are making towards the goal of public safety at both the local and state levels, Body-Gendrot never descends into a simplistic anti-Americanism, despite all of our current malaise and youth school massacres. Neither does she chauvinistically privilege the French approaches. Both societies are treated with respect and with a cool scientific eye that attempts only to discern the best results from the quantitative and qualitative studies she examines. By way of a meaningful conclusion she narrates the 1990s story of Cite des Poetes, a housing project in the town of Pierrefitte, Seine St-Denis and the residents co-production of safety, partnering with the authorities, the youth and other available organizations. This highly believeable narration is an important contribution to violence prevention studies. It is not just another "success story" but a compendium worthy of meditation by public officials and all who are involved in constructing a safe society. She holds out the hope that cities may appear more and more as sites for the modernization of institutions and for innovative practices in social control. Her words have application not just in France and the USA but in Brazil and any other nation struggling with these problems. The more one contemplates her eminently believable and pragmatic approach, the more one feels one is in the presence of a reincarnation of Tocqueville, equally at ease discussing France or the United States. This book should be on the "required reading list" for any university course (graduate or undergraduate) concerned with the issues of violence and violence prevention -- in any conceivable discipline.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Useless for average person/student, October 10, 2001

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Our entire class read this book as part of an Urban Anthropology class. The whole class thought this book would only be appropriate in a doctoral program or among colleages for this particular topic. She must have been paid according to word count. Her writing style is overly complex and she contradicts herself on many points throughout the book. Her language is above even most college students' vocabulary. Some of her words are not in an average or collegiate dictionary. She is also very reptitive. 25 sets of thumbs way down on this one.

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