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1 online resource (264 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Table of cases; Table of European legislation; Introduction: criminalising squatting -- setting an agenda; Part I The state: critical perspectives on criminalisation in the neoliberal state; 1 The political economy of trespass: revisiting Marxist analysis of the law's response to squatting; 2 Crime as property: a restorative perspective on the 'ownership' of unlawful occupation; 3 Criminalisation of squatting: Scottish lessons? |
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Part II The squatter: vulnerability, lifestyle, protest and political rhetoric4 The role of rhetoric in the criminalisation of squatting; 5 The criminalisation of squatting: discourses, moral panics and resistances in the Netherlands and England and Wales; 6 Criminalising the poor: squatting, homelessness and social welfare; Part III The landowner: protecting property and adverse possession; 7 A property law critique of the criminalisation of squatting; 8 Adverse possession: relativity to absolutism; 9 The changing architectures of adverse possession and a political aesthetics of squatting |
| Summary |
This collection of critical essays considers the criminalisation of squatting from a range of different theoretical, policy and practice perspectives. While the practice of squatting has long been criminalised in some jurisdictions, the last few years have witnessed the emergence of a newly constituted political concern with unlawful occupation of land. With initiatives to address the 'threat' of squatting sweeping across Europe, the offence of squatting in a residential building was created in England in 2012. This development, which has attracted a large measure of media attention, has been |
| Notes |
Conclusions: developing critical perspectives on the criminalisation of squattingIndex |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Crime -- Great Britain
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Squatters -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Occupancy (Law) -- Great Britain
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Housing -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
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Criminal law -- Great Britain
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Crime
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Criminal law
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Housing -- Law and legislation
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Occupancy (Law)
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Squatters -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fox O'Mahony, Lorna.
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O'Mahony, David
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Hickey, Robin.
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| ISBN |
9781317807957 |
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1317807952 |
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9781315815565 |
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1315815567 |
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1322232261 |
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9781322232263 |
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0415740614 |
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9780415740616 |
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