Abstract
In recent years, numerous German cities have implemented community-based crime prevention policies on the level of neighborhoods. By focusing on these developments, the paper analyses a fundamental change in contemporary urban problem solving. Empirically, it retraces debates on the potential of new strategies of urban governance, which have taken place in the context of conferences on crime prevention over the last 15 years. Following a foucauldian discourse analysis, this article discusses the ambivalence of references to urban space and illustrates how community-based interventions reaffirm space as a governmental instrument of deterrence, social order, and differentiation.
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