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23 Eur. J. on Crim. Pol'y & Rsch. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/eurjcpr23 and id is 1 raw text is: Eur J Crim Policy Res (2017) 23:1-7 CWssMark DOI 10.1007/s10610-017-9337-2 Introduction The renaissance of administrative orders and the changing face of urban social control Rossella Selmini1 - Adam Crawford' Published online: 3 February 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 The use of administrative municipal orders and other kind of civil, hybrid or semi-criminal regulations to address a wide range of urban issues and social problems, from minor crime to behaviour of young people, is becoming common in many European and North American cities (Beckett and Herbert 2010). These new legal tools (sometimes adaptations on older modes of governing behaviour) tend to focus on the regulation of urban and municipal problems, notably associated with 'public spaces' and behaviours perceived to be problematic to local social order therein (Crawford 2009a). Frequently, administrative measures are preferred, in the first instance, precisely because such problems are believed to affront subjective insecurities that interpret signals of (dis)order in ways that are problematic for social relations and collective wellbeing due to their persistent or cumulative effects (Innes 2004). Moreover, these novel legal tools frequently seek to evade or dilute the traditional protections and due process rights associated with the criminal justice process (Ericson 2007). These hybrid legal instruments administrative or civil at a first step, and then potentially escalating to criminal proceedings upon breach have a different legal nature in the Anglo- American context and in continental Europe. However, they share several common traits and seem to be part of a broader tendency to increase the regulation of social problems and different forms of disorder at the urban level increasing control and reinforcing the possibility of criminal sanctions. Consequently, the various administrative tools fashioned and deployed to address analogous terms of 'incivilities', 'anti-social behaviour' and 'urban disorder' have come to constitute and delineate a distinctive, if capaciously ill-defined, field of public policy and practice. Not only does this constellation of hybrid orders (con)fuse and transcend traditional differences between crime and disorder, but it also refigures and blurs relations between civil and criminal interventions as well as formal and informal regulatory responses. Moreover, in practice, the new tools of intervention operate in policy fields in which diverse organisational interests, working cultures, priorities and W Rossella Selmini rselmini@umn.edu Sociology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 267 -19th Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA e Springer

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