In recent years, many European countries, including Italy, have witnessed an increasing
penalisation of uncivil (anti-social or nuisance) behaviour at the local level (Peršak, 2017b …

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 …

This chapter describes the politics of policing in the two biggest Italian cities, Rome and
Milan. The empirical focus of this intra-national comparison is on the formulation of policy …

Over the past 30 years, we have been witnessing a rise in incivility policing across western
but also non‐western cities. The term “incivility policing” refers to bans and exclusion aimed …

This article analyses the relations between security, urban governance and democratic
quality in the light of the fundamental theoretical trends and principal empirical researches …

This chapter is devoted to the empirical analysis of the urban regeneration policy for the
typical case study of the Area Marina Protetta della Penisola del Sinis–Isola di Mal di Ventre …