Les centres commerciaux, cibles d'incivilités et promoteurs de sécurité

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ID6184820
AutoresFrédéric Ocqueteau (Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales, autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Volumen17
Número3
Páginas235-260
Fecha de publicación1993-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDéviance et Société (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0378-7931 • E-ISSN: 2296-4096
EditorialPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/ds.1993.1305
OpenAlexW2073348707
IdiomaFR
Citas recibidas6

This paper describes an original private-policing experiment, initiated in a socio-cultural context favouring community policing, by a shooping mall in a so- called hard neighborhood. This experiment challenges many generally accepted ideas about prevention of incivilities in a privately owned space open to the public. A drop in the level of losses incurred by the supermarket cannot be the unique criterion by which situational prevention's efficiency can be evaluated. Specific community prevention programs, focusing on youngsters and on the perceived causes of their idleness and their incivilities should also be taken into account. This approach rocks the balance of ordinary division of labour relative to social control. Although a long term evaluation of the experiment's success remains a difficult task (which would be the criteria?), it still leaves room for a new approach of shopping malls in France as more than organized victims struggling to defend their premises; they can be viewed as possible partners in the general production of urban safety

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