A review of the book: Atkinson, Rowland & Millington, Gareth (2019). Urban Criminology: The City, Disorder, Harm and Social Control. New York, NY: Routledge, 295 pages.
Por Rodrigo Firmino e Acácio Augusto
The modern city and the forms of population management in its space are the most immediate and concrete evidence of capitalist exploitation and domination since its emergence with the bourgeois revolutions and the Industrial Revolution. A book on urban criminology therefore far surpasses the specialist interests of urban sociology and critical criminology. Moreover, after reading the book (of broad historical and theoretical scope), it is no exaggeration to state that it is impossible to think of the modern city without considering the forms used for controlling offences and offenders within its space.
Urban Criminology is an extensive book with excellent and detailed treatment of the intersection be- tween themes, concepts, and key references to enhance the understanding of this comprehensive in- terdisciplinary field. The first sentence of the introduction states clearly, “[t]o understand crime has been in many ways to understand the city” (p. 2). The converse of this statement would be no exagger- ation, in that to understand the city is also to understand better the networks of political, economic, social, and cultural relations of crime, and their association with the production of space as it is built and lived…
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