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Author:   John Flint
Publisher:   Policy Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781847421623

ISBN 10:   1847421628
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   19 July 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: housing and anti-social behaviour ~ John Flint; Housing and the governance of conduct ~ John Flint; Governing tenants: from dreadful enclosures to dangerous places ~ Pauline Card; Labelling: constructing definitions of anti-social behaviour? ~ Helen Carr and Dave Cowan; Anti-social behaviour: voices front the front line ~ Judy Nixon and Sadie Parr; Spaces of discipline and control: the compounded citizenship of social renting ~ Rowland Atkinson; Tenancy agreements: a mechanism for governing anti-social behaviour? ~ Diane Lister; The changing legal framework: from landlords to agents of social control ~ Caroline Hunter; Social landlords, anti-social behaviour and counter-measures ~ Hal Pawson and Carol MacKenzie; Evaluating the shelter inclusion project: a floating support service for households accused of anti-social behaviour ~ Anwen Jones, Nicholas Pleace and Deborah Quilgars; Tackling anti-social behaviour: an evaluation of the Dundee Families Project ~ Suzie Scott; Policing and community safety in residential areas: the mixed economy of visible patrols ~ Adam Crawford; Gated communities: a response to, or remedy for, anti-social behaviour? ~ Sarah Blandy; Housing and anti-social behaviour in Australia ~ Kathy Arthurson and Keith Jacobs; Testing urban forms: city, control and 'urban violence' in France ~ Olivier Ratouis and Jerome Boissonade; Residential stability amongst adolescents in public housing: a risk factor for delinquent and violent behaviour? ~ Tim Ireland, Terence P. Thornberry and Rolf Loeber; Conclusions ~ John Flint.

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This book brings together leading researchers from the UK and overseas to examine how anti-social behaviour is being tackled by an increasing number of agencies and a wide range of techniques. It identifies the ambiguities which exist between the rhetoric of policy and day-to-day practice, and raises the question of whether the Government is really being 'tough on ASB as well as tough on the causes of ASB.' Ade Kearns, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow The ever-expanding governance of behaviour has its roots in social housing, and this timely volume brings together a range of housing and neighbourhood studies looking critically at the treatment, and concept, of anti-social behaviour. It deserves a wide readership not only within housing studies but by anyone seeking to understand the developing politics of behaviour. Elizabeth Burney, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University

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John Flint is a senior research fellow in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University.

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