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The Social Control of Cities?: A Comparative Perspective

Sophie Body-Gendrot
ISBN: 978-0-631-20521-0
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336 pages
April 2000, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Contemporary advanced societies.

  • Informed by extensive fieldwork, including interviews with mayors, judges, police officers, community leaders and grass-roots organizations.

  • Draws from a wide variety of disciplines including political sociology and history and links urban studies to broader questions regarding the criminology of exclusion.

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