Zero Tolerance for the Industrial Past and Other Threats: Policing and Urban Entrepreneurialism in Britain and Germany

Bernd Belina and Gesa Helms
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Bernd Belina: Institut für Geographie, Universität Bremen, Postfach 33 04 40, 28334 Bremen, Germany, bbelina@uni-bremen.de
Gesa Helms: Department of Geography and Topographic Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, ghelms@geog.gla.ac.uk

Urban Studies, 2003, vol. 40, issue 9, 1845-1867

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed changes in the discourses and practices of urban policing towards 'quality-of-life offences' and the presence of unwanted groups (beggars, drug-users) in city centres. The authors argue that the change towards a more 'law-and-order' style of law enforcement, often referred to as Zero Tolerance Policing, has to be examined not solely as a means of crime prevention but also in the context of interurban competition. Thus, it constitutes a moment of the urban political economy, often referred to as urban entrepreneurialism : especially for old industrial cities, safe and clean city centres are regarded as a necessary asset for competition and image promotion. These arguments are developed by discussion of two empirical studies: Glasgow, Scotland, and Essen, in the Ruhr region in Germany.

Date: 2003
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