“Op Wallstreet belazerde iedereen zijn klanten” – zo relativeert Jordan Belfort zijn eigen daden onlangs in het FD. En passant stelt Belfort de cultuur binnen de financiële sector – waarin hij jaren werkzaam was en goed ingevoerd – aan de kaak. Wolf of Wallstreet, Margin Calls – feit of fictie?

This issue is concerned with what this introduction calls the production of secure space. It thematizes the relationship between subjective safety or insecurity and space. As a prism for the analysis of this relationship, the issue focuses on the phenomenon of (semi) gated communities. As most of the contributions show, subjectively experienced insecurity is often but one factor in the formation of gated communities and other ‘gated’ forms of living. In thus focusing on the motives of middle class residents for gated forms of living, this issue departs with the dominant strand in ‘administrative criminology’, which partakes in an increasing localization and depoliticization of issue of crime and safety.

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