Urban Security in Europe
Urban Security in Europe
Amadeu Recasens, from the University of Porto, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime and Society,” under the title “Urban Security in Europe”. Here is the abstract: This paper is submitted to the 'Urban Security in Europe 2'panel of the ESC working group on 'Crime, Science and Politics'. The panel examines issues of urban security management considered in the Policy Delphi conducted for project Urbis, which is funded by the European Union's Leonardo Life Long Learning programme. This paper focuses on the problems, responsibilities and relevant expertise for urban security management in Spain. The complex division of political and administrative powers, as well as the different Spanish nationalities (Spain, Catalonia, Basque Country …) and its translations and realities in the field of safety, make impossible to generalize, because it is a model of variable geometries. The role of the state and the development of security policies are completely different according to the territories. While in Catalonia or Basque Country the regional governments have broad security powers to develop their own security policies, in other regions, the state, its policies and its police and civil servants are omnipresent.
Exploring Urban Security: Conceptualization and Expertise in Ireland
Matt Bowden, from the Dublin Institute of Technology, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Crime Prevention,” under the title “Exploring Urban Security: Conceptualization and Expertise in Ireland”. Here is the abstract: This paper is submitted to the 'Urban Security in Europe 1' panel of the ESC working group on 'Crime, Science and Politics'. The panel examines issues of urban security management considered in the Policy Delphi conducted for project Urbis, which is funded by the European Union's Leonardo Life Long Learning programme. This paper focuses on the problems, responsibilities and relevant expertise for urban security management in Ireland. The paper draws attention to geo-historic development of urban society as a factor in conceptualizing issues of urban security governance. While Ireland has been greatly influenced by policy transfer from the UK, there has been a general reticence to adopt concepts such as community safety in spite of the proliferation of a number of community safety type initiatives. The paper outlines some of the more recent key developments; considers their prospects and identifies key challenges in mobilizing institutions and expertise around urban security.
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- “Exploring Urban Security: Conceptualization and Expertise in Ireland”, by Matt Bowden (Proceedings)
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See Also
Further Reading
- “Urban Security in Europe”, by Amadeu Recasens (Proceedings)