Les centres commerciaux, cibles d'incivilités et promoteurs de sécurité
Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Déviance et Société
DOI: 10.3406/ds.1993.1305
Author: Frédéric Ocqueteau
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2073348707