Placing Crime: The Failings of Urban-Centric Environmental Criminology

Title
Placing Crime: The Failings of Urban-Centric Environmental Criminology
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Lee, Murray
Clancey, Garner
Editor
Editor(s): Alistair Harkness, Bridget Harris, David Baker
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Federation Press
Place of publication
Annandale, Australia
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:20926
Abstract
In the closing quarter of the 20th century, high rates of offending came to be seen as something of a normal part of modern life in industrial states (Garland 2001; Young 1999). Recorded crime in such states had been increasing from around the late 1960s. Crime became politicised throughout the late 20th century and elections based on law and order became almost the norm. This polemic was particularly strong in parts of regional and rural Australia, and in New South Wales in particular where public meetings were held to discuss the problem of law and order (Carrington & Hogg 2006; Lee 2007a; Bull 2007). Indeed, by the mid-1990s some rural and regional towns became all but defined by their law and order problems - often racialised and constructed as an Aboriginal problem (Carrington & Hogg 2006) and accompanied by an intense discourse of fear of crime (Lee 2007b).
Link
Citation
Locating Crime in Context and Place: Perspectives on Regional, Rural and Remote Australia, p. 25-34
ISBN
9781760020477
Start page
25
End page
34

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