How Crime Governance Defines the Urban Experience: The Maze of Security (Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice)

The book explores the complex links between war and order, presenting a well-founded and fresh view on how crime is governed in modern societies.It challenges existing analyses of the relationship between space and social control, offering an original theoretical perspective and a new analytical tool that paves the way for several lines of research examining how dynamic spaces of social control are designed across different spatiotemporal contexts. The author shows how the uneven distribution of violence and security worldwide is key to understanding how our ideas of order are formed and how we perceive and inhabit cities.This uneven spread of violence and security grants a particular privilege in modern societies: the right to live in less violent areas.Such a privilege affects how crime is regulated and how security issues are addressed. Fernando uses the case of Bogotá to illustrate how war influences crime governance, even in societies and periods that seem peaceful, and how crime