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1. New Directions in Crime and Deviancy

   Edited by Simon Winlow, Rowland Atkinson

   Criminology is at a crossroads. In the last two decades it has largely failed to produce the kind of new intellectual frameworks and empirical data that might help us to explain the high levels of crime and interpersonal violence that beset inner city areas and corrode community life. Similarly, it...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Gated Communities

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Blandy

   This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance. While gated communities have become a common feature of the urban landscape in South Africa,...

   Published December 3rd 2007 by Routledge
3. Gated Communities

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Blandy

   This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance. While gated communities have become a common feature of the urban landscape in South Africa,...

   Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge
4. Gentrification in a Global Context

   Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge

   Series: Housing and Society Series

   Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically...

   Published March 1st 2005 by Routledge