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Towards a criminology of atmospheres : law, affect and the codes of the street
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Fraser, Alistair and Matthews, Daniel (2021) Towards a criminology of atmospheres : law, affect and the codes of the street. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 21 (4). pp. 455-471. doi:10.1177/1748895819874853 ISSN 1748-8958.
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Abstract
The street has a long and distinguished pedigree in criminology as a site of human sociability, transgression and spontaneity. Recent scholarship in legal studies has, however, explored the role that non-human actors play in the normative ordering of urban life. These interventions suggest the need for criminologists of the street to take seriously not only the experiential foreground of crime but also its background. In this article, we seek to bring these traditions into dialogue through engagement with the concept of ‘atmosphere’ – a place-based mood or spatialised feeling that blends human and non-human elements, and has the capacity to act in a quasi-agentic manner. Drawing on an experiment in ‘atmospheric methods’ conducted during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, in which some of the city’s central streets were occupied for 79 days, we seek to demonstrate that the analytics of ‘atmosphere’ offers a unique conceptual approach to urban life and street crime in the contemporary age.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Criminology & Criminal Justice | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1748-8958 | ||||||
| Official Date: | September 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 21 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 455-471 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1748895819874853 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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