Policing the void: recreation, social inclusion and the Baltimore police athletic league.

Autor/inn/en	Andrews, David L.; Bustad, Jacob J.
Titel	Policing the void: recreation, social inclusion and the Baltimore police athletic league.
Quelle	In: Social Inclusion, 5 (2017) 2, S. 241-249 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2183-2803
DOI	10.17645/si.v5i2.904
Schlagwörter	Jugend; Inklusion; Stadt; Neoliberalismus; Verbrechensbekämpfung; Sport; Industrie; Erholung; Freizeitpolitik; Soziales Problem; Polizei
Abstract	In this article, we explore the relationship between public recreation policy and planning and the transformation of urban governance in the context of the Police Athletic League centers in Baltimore, Maryland. In light of contemporary discussions of the role of youth programs for sport and physical activity within post-industrial cities, the origination, development, and eventual demise of Baltimore's network of Police Activity League centers is an instructive, if disheartening, saga. It illustrates the social and political rationales mobilized in justifying recreation policy and programming, the framing of sport and physical activity as preventative measures towards crime and juvenile delinquency, and the precarity of such initiatives given the efficiency-driven orthodoxies of neoliberal urban entrepreneurialism (Harvey, 1989). This analysis emphasizes how the PAL centers were designed to "fill the void" left by a declining system of public recreation, thereby providing an example of a recreation program as part of the "social problems industry" (Pitter & Andrews 1997).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2020/2