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- catalog abstract ""In this study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative anlaysis of new types of welfare and social maintenance policies of states and of cities in charge of strategic functions in the global economy. Focusing on concrete urban settings in the USA and in France, the book examines the relationship between national and local decision-makers, including their policy rhetorics meant to check moral panics over juvenile crime and violent events. Beyond such institutional responses, it examines the production of alternative norms and of new forms of politics displayed by the powerless in marginalized neighborhoods."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11413504.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In this study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative anlaysis of new types of welfare and social maintenance policies of states and of cities in charge of strategic functions in the global economy. Focusing on concrete urban settings in the USA and in France, the book examines the relationship between national and local decision-makers, including their policy rhetorics meant to check moral panics over juvenile crime and violent events. Beyond such institutional responses, it examines the production of alternative norms and of new forms of politics displayed by the powerless in marginalized neighborhoods."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Tolerance and suppression -- The politics of depacification. Economic globalization and urban unrest ; Law-enforcement in the USA ; Solidarity and social prevention in France -- The politics of reconciliation. Managing polarization: New York and Chicago ; Managing polarization: Paris, Marseilles, and Lyons -- Conclusion: The social control of cities?".
- catalog extent "xl, 286 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0631205209 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0631205217 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in urban and social change".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; Malden, Mass : Blackwell,".
- catalog subject "307.76 21".
- catalog subject "HT321 .B65 1999".
- catalog subject "Marginality, Social.".
- catalog subject "Poverty.".
- catalog subject "Social control.".
- catalog subject "Urban economics.".
- catalog subject "Urban policy.".
- catalog subject "Urban poor.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Tolerance and suppression -- The politics of depacification. Economic globalization and urban unrest ; Law-enforcement in the USA ; Solidarity and social prevention in France -- The politics of reconciliation. Managing polarization: New York and Chicago ; Managing polarization: Paris, Marseilles, and Lyons -- Conclusion: The social control of cities?".
- catalog title "The social control of cities? : a comparative perspective / Sophie Body-Gendrot.".
- catalog type "text".