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Conference Announcement: Urban Security Work Spaces Policing the Crisis - Policing in Crisis Read

Join us in Berlin for this international conference.

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Below you can find abstracts and information on our speakers.

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New articles and abstracts

Saturday 04. of August 2007

By: Jens Sambale: We are getting there ....eventually: Manuscript will be shipped to the publisher later next week

It took us a long time, but we will send the manuscript to the publisher next week and keep you informed by email. Just look at the pics!


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Category: Presentations, Abstracts & Papers

Friday 03. of August 2007

: Nik Theodore and Ryan Hollon on non-state forms of policing in Chicago

Our friend Nik Theodore and Ryan Hollon talk about non-state forms of policing in the Chicago public housing market (external link to the Chicago Reader)


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Category: welfare & workfare, Surveillance, Security Security

Thursday 26. of July 2007

By: Jens Sambale: Paul Tepper: Welfare Checks Can’t Cover Rent for Downtown’s Homeless

Missing Picture: Skid Row Los Angeles

Our friend Paul Tepper just published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Business Journal about welfare, housing and homelessness. While many Europeans assume there simply is not welfare state left in the US, there is indeed very...


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Category: welfare & workfare, Control

Friday 27. of April 2007

By: Jacqueline Leavitt:: Jacqueline Leavitt: Jobs and Public Housing - Old Programs and New Paradigms

Missing Image: Aliso Village March

Public housing in the United States and Los Angeles began as a jobs program but job training programs are a relatively recent intervention in public housing policy [1]. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) signed the U.S....


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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, welfare & workfare

Wednesday 25. of April 2007

By: Nik Theodore: Nik Theodore: Beyond the New Paternalism

Beyond the New Paternalism This is the first article from a book and a conference we did on the connection between social housing and (un)employment in a transnational perspective. Other contribution in both German and English...


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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, welfare & workfare