Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space

Nina Peršak is Scientific Director of the Institute for Criminal-Law Ethics and Criminology in Ljubljana and Visiting Professor of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She holds a doctorate in law from University of Ljubljana and an LLM (law) and MPhil (social and developmental psychology) from University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie in the areas of criminalisation, criminal policy, human rights, social control, victimology, socio-legal studies and social psychology.Anna Di Ronco is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Sociology Department of the University of Essex and Deputy Director for its Centre for Criminology. She holds a doctorate in criminology from Ghent University, Belgium. Before starting her PhD, she completed a five-year degree in law at the University of Trento, Italy. Dr Di Ronco’s main research interests cover the regulation, representation and enforcement of incivilities in the urban space, and individuals’ and groups’ resistance to social control in the physical and digital space.

A bold, provocative and much needed collection that pushes past the boundaries of conventional understandings of urban incivilities. It is a landmark achievement, making a compelling case for a criminology of the senses and is fully attuned to how the landscapes of disorder, crime, justice and social control are experienced in the city.Eamonn Carrabine, Professor of Criminology, Sociology Department, University of Essex, UKThis fascinating and timely book—with its focus on power and structural inequalities as well as the emotional and sensory dimensions of harm and disorder—makes an original and invaluable contribution to the burgeoning ‘field’ of urban criminology.Gareth Millington, Senior Lecturer, University of York, UKThis is a very impressive collection and contribution to critical criminology! It undertakes analysis at the intersection of the senses, affective registers, power/control in examining crime, social harm and disorder in urban spaces; contributes to advances in urban and sensory criminology; and crucially to criminology as a European and global project. A must read and core text for criminological theory modules and indeed, for all researchers interested in urban studies.Maggie O’Neill, Professor of Sociology & Criminology at University College Cork, IrelandThinking about cities through the senses and emotion can be a revealing experience to criminologists and urban scholars interested in issues such as harm, disorder and incivility, which this edited book shows very clearly. It is a very welcome and even necessary contribution to urban criminology.Lucas Melgaço, Professor of Urban Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

• 1. Incivilities, harm and social control in urban space Part One 2. Exploring sound and noise in the urban environment: Tensions between cultural expression and municipal control, health and inequality, police power and resistance 3.Sounds dangerous: Black music subcultures as victims of state regulation and social control 4.Offending sights and urban governance: Expectations of city aesthetics and spatial responses to the unsightly 5.Green criminology perspective on light pollution 6.When the city smells: Perceptions of decay and physical disorder in Rome Part Two 7.Emotion and the city: Emotive dimensions of incivilities and of their urban social control 8.Power at play: The policing of sex work across two European cities 9.Structural violence, deviance and social control in the urban life and space 10.The sensory, emotive and power dimensions of incivilities and their social control in the city