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Fourteen Community safety and young people: 21st-century homo sacer and the politics of injustice
Abstract
This chapter explores the impact of the now dominant aspect of community safety policy: the management of ‘antisocial behaviour’ through ‘early interventions’. It firmly sets the tone for this critical exegesis of community safety and young people’s place therein. It argues that instead of objective judgement, justice, and inclusion, community safety has become a tool of partiality and exclusion through ‘precautionary injustice’ techniques that increasingly demonise, and consequentially deny justice to, children and young people. It notes that as Goldson observes insightfully, the ideologies and domain assumptions that underpin ‘risk’ based early interventions are both intrinsically authoritarian and antithetical to long established principles of youth justice.
Abstract
This chapter explores the impact of the now dominant aspect of community safety policy: the management of ‘antisocial behaviour’ through ‘early interventions’. It firmly sets the tone for this critical exegesis of community safety and young people’s place therein. It argues that instead of objective judgement, justice, and inclusion, community safety has become a tool of partiality and exclusion through ‘precautionary injustice’ techniques that increasingly demonise, and consequentially deny justice to, children and young people. It notes that as Goldson observes insightfully, the ideologies and domain assumptions that underpin ‘risk’ based early interventions are both intrinsically authoritarian and antithetical to long established principles of youth justice.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List of abbreviations vi
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction: asking questions of community safety 1
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Community safety: an incomplete project?
- ‘You just know you’re being watched everywhere’: young people, custodial experiences and community safety 13
- Community safety and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities 35
- Community safety, the family and domestic violence 53
- Ethnic minorities and community safety 71
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Community safety: a contested project?
- The local politics of community safety: local policy for local people? 95
- The police and community safety 111
- Community safety and the private security sector 125
- Outreach drug work and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships: square pegs in round holes? 139
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Community safety: a flawed project?
- Community safety and corporate crime 155
- Community safety and victims: who is the victim of community safety? 169
- Young women, community safety and informal cultures 181
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Community safety: overrun by enforcement?
- Community safety and social exclusion 201
- Community safety and young people: 21st-century homo sacer and the politics of injustice 219
- Conclusion: contradictions and dilemmas: the rise and fall of community safety? 237
- Index 249
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List of abbreviations vi
- List of contributors vii
- Introduction: asking questions of community safety 1
-
Community safety: an incomplete project?
- ‘You just know you’re being watched everywhere’: young people, custodial experiences and community safety 13
- Community safety and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities 35
- Community safety, the family and domestic violence 53
- Ethnic minorities and community safety 71
-
Community safety: a contested project?
- The local politics of community safety: local policy for local people? 95
- The police and community safety 111
- Community safety and the private security sector 125
- Outreach drug work and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships: square pegs in round holes? 139
-
Community safety: a flawed project?
- Community safety and corporate crime 155
- Community safety and victims: who is the victim of community safety? 169
- Young women, community safety and informal cultures 181
-
Community safety: overrun by enforcement?
- Community safety and social exclusion 201
- Community safety and young people: 21st-century homo sacer and the politics of injustice 219
- Conclusion: contradictions and dilemmas: the rise and fall of community safety? 237
- Index 249
