Alison Young

Street art, public city: Law, crime and the urban imagination

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 20-11-2013

DOI: 10.4324/9780203796917

Cities in the city: Street art, enchantment, and the urban commons

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 04-05-2014

DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2014.888208

Perceptions of Safety Among Taxi and Rideshare Service Patrons: Gender, Safekeeping And Responsibilisation

Publisher: Queensland University of Technology

Date: 20-04-2022

DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.2085

Abstract: Rideshare and taxi services may commonly be perceived as safer modes of travel, particularly in comparison to public transport, and the introduction of rideshare services such as Uber has transformed urban mobilities. Yet, there is emerging anecdotal evidence to suggest that both taxi and rideshare services are sites of sexual harassment and violence. However, little is known about passengers’ perceptions of safety when using taxis and rideshare services, an issue with significant implications for mobility, civic participation and social inclusion. To address this gap, we explore findings from an online survey and one-on-one interviews with rideshare and taxi patrons to examine their perceptions of safety when using taxi and rideshare services and the factors that facilitate or impede feelings of safety, including the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. In closing, we consider the implications of the findings for conceptualisations of safety, developing policy and practice, and future research.

Arrested Mobilities

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 04-12-2019

DOI: 10.1177/1743872119889824

Abstract: Drawing on insights from emergent thinking within mobility studies to focus on the banalities of everyday urban commuting, walking and other forms of unremarkable travel, this article considers everyday encounters that take place as we pass through the spaces of the city. Consideration of such mundane encounters is located within a framework attending to the interplay of affect, aesthetics, mobilities and materiality, both within the city as it is figured in literary or poetic representation and as a physical and geographical space. Focusing on the recent killing of a taxi driver in Melbourne, and on readings of Teju Cole’s novel Open City and Claudia Rankine’s poetry in Citizen, the article’s aims are two-fold. The first is a consideration of encounters in which movement through the city is arrested, halted, or brought to a standstill, whether temporarily or permanently, through racism, robbery or lethal violence, with the result that cities become agglomerations of spaces in which violence or insult has taken place – a patchwork of invisible crime scenes. Its second consideration is to propose that such arrested mobilities, and the crime scenes they engender, momentarily expose aspects of urban existence that could be called hauntological, revealing the usually obscured ghosts of the city.

Framing Crime

Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish

Date: 02-07-2010

DOI: 10.4324/9780203880753

Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 21-07-2023

DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZAC053

Abstract: In ‘a world that has been built to accommodate only some’ (Ahmed 2019: 221), how do those engaging in public protest or experiencing housing insecurity make use of the material environment? In this article, we examine adaptation of the built environment in four sites in Melbourne, Australia. Everyday urban places are composed of myriad ‘small things’ acted upon as affordances for survival within structures of silencing and dispossession for the urban undercommons. We draw from cultural, spatial and atmospheric criminology to inform an ethnographic method focusing on materiality, use, adaptability and sensory composition. In so doing, our research contributes to criminological understanding of the significance of ‘minor’ events, activities and encounters in everyday life by proposing that ‘small things in everyday places’ constitute potentialities for defiance and resistance.

Judging the image art, value, law

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 02-08-2004

DOI: 10.4324/9780203643747

Images in the aftermath of trauma: Responding to September 11th

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 04-2007

DOI: 10.1177/1741659007074444

Abstract: An event such as the attack on Manhattan on September 11th 2001 is socially, culturally and politically traumatizing. Those who saw the attack (in person or through media coverage) emphasized its visual impact. Faced with such visual trauma, it is unsurprising that the aftermath of the attacks had a representational dimension, as in iduals and institutions strove to suture the resulting wound through image making. This article investigates the legacy of visual trauma after September 11th in the difficult interim years when disaster is no longer part of the immediate past. I focus on two texts (the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, or 9/11 Report, and a short film by the Mexican director, Alejandro González Iñárritu), each of which displays in different ways the effects of the trauma of witnessing disaster. The aim is to raise questions about the legacy of traumatic events for the legal and cultural responses which follow in their wake, and to that extent the article thinks through the demands of witnessing trauma, the ethical challenges for the cinematic documentation of a traumatic event, and the limits upon judgment in the aftermath of disaster.

Book Review: Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 23-10-2022

DOI: 10.1177/09646639211053715

From object to encounter: Aesthetic politics and visual criminology

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 28-04-2014

DOI: 10.1177/1362480613518228

Abstract: Recent criminological research has engaged with images of crime such that there increasingly appears to exist a need for a specifically visual criminology. Within visual criminology, however, images are frequently constructed as objects of analysis rather than as constitutive elements of the discursive field. This article draws upon the specific context of the social, cultural and legal responses to uncommissioned words and images in public space—street art and graffiti writing. Focusing on one instance of unauthorized image making, I argue for the dynamic role of the image in the constitution of crime in contemporary society and culture, thanks to the affective dimension of the encounter between spectator and image. The complex range of responses to street art and graffiti highlights ways in which visual criminology must ensure that it eschews an object-centred approach to the image, and conceptualize it instead by means of an aesthetic politics of the encounter.

Criminal images: The affective judgment of graffiti and street art

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 18-07-2012

DOI: 10.1177/1741659012443232

Abstract: This article draws together two distinct strands within contemporary criminological scholarship by focusing on the encounter between the criminal law and the uncommissioned word or image in public space. The first strand of criminological research involves the study of the processes through which aspects of everyday life have become criminalised the second is that which has investigated the cultural practices known as graffiti and street art, often approached as manifestations of subcultures, as the products of new social movements, and as ambiguous images straddling the art/crime dichotomy. The article examines the response of law to uncommissioned images and words in public space, and investigates the law’s judgment of illicit art and writing. Based upon research done as part of a three-year study of street art and graffiti in a range of jurisdictions, the article draws upon theories of affect to think through the ways in which the illicit writer or artist is constructed.

The scene of violence: Cinema, crime, affect

Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish

Date: 04-12-2009

DOI: 10.4324/9780203880791

Signifying dissent: The sensory semiotics of protest

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 12-04-2023

DOI: 10.1177/17416590231161510

Abstract: Public protests need to communicate their aims to an audience, and the audience must make sense of the message. Initially this article was planned as a visual analysis of protest signs and placards. But to avoid ‘reproduc[ing] the privileged position of sight and vision over other ways of knowing’, we attend to the contested relations between signification, power, and all the senses. The sounds, smells, sights, tastes, and textures found at protests by groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Occupy, and the gilets jaunes, and on issues including women’s rights, nuclear power, immigration detention, Covid-19 lockdowns and vaccination mandates. Through ethnographic documentation of protests and the ‘live’ coverage broadcast in social and news media, our investigation of activities, scenes, signs, and participants reveals, firstly, that public dissent communicates through multiple sensory dimensions, and, secondly, that the senses of street-based protests are inextricably intertwined with sensory control tactics used against protesters in the policing of events.

On visible homelessness and the micro-aesthetics of public space

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 15-02-2019

DOI: 10.1177/0004865818823945

The screen of the crime: Judging the affect of cinematic violence

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 03-2009

DOI: 10.1177/0964663908100331

Abstract: Discussions of screen violence polarize around the question of whether images can cause people to behave differently. Proponents of this position point to the influence of images in other contexts its critics reject the implication that in iduals can be so simplistically motivated. Such debate is intensified by events such as the Columbine or Virginia Tech shootings, where cultural products are named as the causes of lethal violence. This article engages with the assumption that the violence in violent imagery is a relatively homogeneous category. It explores paradigms of cinematic violence through the analysis of exemplary scenes from four representative films ( The Matrix, Reservoir Dogs , Natural Born Killers and Elephant), each of which has been linked to violence flowing in and from the image. Each shows multiple killings in highly graphic ways, yet each deploys different representational techniques to produce a range of affective responses in the spectator. As such, the article seeks to answer the question of how to judge the affect of cinematic violence and to investigate the implication of the spectator in the affects and aesthetics of screen violence.

Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 03-01-2019

DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZY073

Book review forum podcast: The Surrounds

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 06-05-2023

DOI: 10.1177/00420980231172588

Locked-down city

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 05-08-2021

DOI: 10.1177/1741659020946179

'Our desires are ungovernable': Writing graffiti in urban space

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 08-2006

DOI: 10.1177/1362480606065908

Abstract: Our aim in this article is to contribute to the body of research on graffiti by considering some of the hitherto hidden aspects of graffiti culture. Drawing on detailed interviews with graffiti writers, we examine four main themes: motivations for graffiti writing thresholds iding ‘art’ from ‘vandalism’ writers’ reactions to ‘blank’ surfaces and graffiti’s relation to other types of crime. We orient our discussion towards the affective dimensions of the activity in the hope that the words of writers become a visible and productive presence in urban (and academic) space.

Negotiated consent or zero tolerance?: Responding to graffiti and street art in Melbourne

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-2010

DOI: 10.1080/13604810903525215

University Of Cambridge

Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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The University Of Edinburgh

Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Lancaster University

Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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University Of Melbourne

Location: Australia

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Justice In The Streets? Responses To Public Homelessness And Public Protest

Start Date: 2021

End Date: 2024

Funder: Australian Research Council

Adult Sexual Assault: An Evidence-based Policy, Practice And Advocacy Model For Victoria Police

Start Date: 2006

End Date: 2010

Funder: Australian Research Council

Urban Images And The Appearance Of City Spaces

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 2010

Funder: Australian Research Council

Transforming City Spaces: Street Art, Urban Cultures, Transnational Networks

Start Date: 2012

End Date: 2014

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0877799

Start Date: 2008

End Date: 06-2013

Amount: $155,721.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210101812

Start Date: 02-2021

End Date: 01-2025

Amount: $196,522.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP220101078

Start Date: 02-2022

End Date: 02-2025

Amount: $448,884.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP120100740

Start Date: 02-2012

End Date: 12-2017

Amount: $274,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council