How do cities produce and respond to criminality and transgressions in the everyday context? Why do some people retreat into fortified enclaves for protection while others derive excitement from doing edgework in the city? This course examines key questions and debates about crime, disorder and social deviance in city landscapes. It focuses on three broad issues: different meanings and dimensions of the crime problem (the ‘what’ and the ‘who’ questions); the relationship between crime, space and place (the ‘where’ and the ‘how’ questions); and the complex mix of informal and formal social controls that influence different types and levels of crime and the urban imagination. Its overall objective is to provide students with the criminological knowledge and conceptual tools to think critically and comparatively about crime and social order in an increasingly globalizing and polarizing world.

This course is delivered in a 3 hour lecture format (with breaks).