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Spatial Dependency of Criminal Gangs

Author(s): Tamás Bezsenyi, Szabolcs Mátyás
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Fordulat
Keywords: criminology;

Summary/Abstract: In the discursive space created by the works of David Harvey and Henri Lefebvre, the work of urbanized law enforcement agencies and the judiciary can be completely reinterpreted, despite the fact that in organizing their day-to-day work, the organizational choices that make up the clarity of competences and competences are a key factor. Information gathering about perpetrators of criminal offenses established by law enforcement agencies, as well as open investigations, confirm that group or organized crime follows specific spatial patterns. In our present study, we want to prove that, based on the organizational interest of the police, Jean-Paul Brodeur’s ordinal dichotomy [qualitative (high) and quantitative (low)] should be reworded. Based on the pretext of spatiality developed by Lefebvre and Soja, the activities of the deprived social background of pocket thug bands, tricky scammers and street robbers are treated at the perceived spatial level. While in the case of more sensitive cases related to the elite, which is somewhat ironically described as quality law enforcement by Brodeur, the investigations provide far less opportunities for perception, and thus the more meaningful reflection on it. Although tracking and mapping the spatial patterns of organizing criminal groups across the hospitality complexes, nightclubs, and other business premises that represent the world of quality policymaking could have a significant impact on criminal intelligence.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 214-248
  • Page Count: 35
  • Language: Hungarian