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Géographie de la violence urbaine en banlieue

1995; Lille University of Science and Technology; Volume: 13; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/espos.1995.1706

2104-3752

Jacques Joly,

Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

A Geography of Urban Violence in the French suburbs. In the French urban peripheries, about a thousand districts said «disadvantaged» or «sensitive» are registered, in which are concentrated the most serious social difficulties, particularly unemployment and deliquency. The urban violence (defined as the whole attacks against institutions and officers that are representative of the State and the various authorities) is being significantly developed since the early 1990s. From original sources of the ministère de l'Intérieur (the French «Home Office»), the author attempts to delimit this phenomenon of anti-institutional violence, to understand its level, its forms and its evolution, and to find its geographical distribution in France. A strong but non exclusive relationship is seen between drug and violence demonstrations.