Urban security has become a pressing political issue in many European cities. This study
seeks to understand why some city governments consider urban security to be a policy …

In the last decades, governing by contracts, and in particular security contracts and pacts,
has been increasingly promoted as a principal means of advancing crime prevention and …

The analysis of national police systems is the core subject of several sociological and
criminological scholarly papers. This analysis, however, especially when carried out …

Criticism of the idea of «smart cities», enabled by Web2. 0+, has gathered pace in the wake
of the global ransomware attack of May 2017, which amongst its targets disabled the …

In questo articolo si esamina quanto la videosorveglianza sia utilizzata dalle
amministrazioni cittadine italiane, nell'ambito della sicurezza integrata, e quanto siano …

In responding to the complex challenges of urban terrorism, new forms of governance-the
modes and practices of the mobilisation and organisation of collective action-increasingly …

We develop a theoretically informed quantitative evaluation of the large-scale policy of
security pacts (SPs) in Italy (2007–2012). In particular, we show how Matland's theoretical …

Urban security has become a new policy preoccupation in many European cities since the
1980s. City governments throughout Europe have increasingly engaged in the repression of …

The term “urban security” appeared in Italy at the beginning of the 1990s, following new
criminological approaches to community safety and crime prevention developed mostly by …

Esiste un sostanziale consenso nella comunità scientifica sulla necessità di stabilire se e in
quale misura le nuove politiche di sicurezza urbana siano efficaci nel raggiungere i loro …