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Course of Study: GE5002 Exploring Human Geography

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Title:
Graham, P. & Clarke, J. (2001). Dangerous places: Crime and the city. In J.
Muncie & E. McLaughlin (Eds.), The problem of crime (pp. 151-190). (2nd ed.).
London: SAGE in association with the Open University.

Name of Author : Peggotty Graham & John Clarke

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 Dangerous Places:
Crime and the City
by Peggotty Graham and John Clarke

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Nineteenth-centurynightmares: the city and the dangerous
classes
2.1 Dangerous places
2.2 Dangerous people
2.3 Dangerous sexualities
2.4 Order and danger: the dynamics of the city and crime
3 Progress and the urban problem: twentieth-centurydreams
3.1 Grounds for optimism: mobility
3.2 Zones of transition: the Chicago School
3.3 Grounds for optimism: urban reconstruction
3.4 Lingering pessimism
3.5 Emerging new concerns
4 Fin-de-sicclenightmares
4.1 Urban decline
4.2 The enemy within?
4.3 Law and order
4.4 Discovering young men
4.5 The old in the new: discovering the underclass
4.6 Fears confirmed?
4.7 The problem of the crime problem
5 Contested cities: constructing social orders
5.1 New urban spaces
5.2 Crime control or criminalization?The regulation of public and
private space
5.3 Dreams and nightmares: urban futures
Review questions
Further reading
References