Bradford, Ben;
Girling, Evi;
Loader, Ian;
Sparks, Richard;
(2023)
Policing and Sense of Place: 'Shallow' and 'Deep' Security in an English Town.
The British Journal of Criminology
10.1093/bjc/azad062.
(In press).
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Abstract
Much policy discourse concentrates on the contribution police make to keeping people safe. Often, this means minimizing fear of crime. Yet, more expansive accounts stress the extent to which deeper-rooted forms of security and belonging might also be important ‘outcomes’ of police activity. Using data collected from a survey of residents of a mid-sized English town, Macclesfield in Cheshire, we consider the extent to which evaluations of policing are associated with (1) a ‘shallow’ sense of security—roughly speaking, feeling safe—and (2) a ‘deeper’ sense of security—being comfortable in, and with, one’s environment. Focussing more accurately on the forms of safety and security police can hope to ‘produce’ opens up space for consideration of the ends they seek as well as the means they use.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Policing and Sense of Place: 'Shallow' and 'Deep' Security in an English Town |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azad062 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad062 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180282 |
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