James Petty

Visible Homelessness in a “Liveable City”: Municipal Responses to Homelessness in Melbourne

James Petty, Alison Young

Journal article  |  2020  |  American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Despite considerable national and urban prosperity, significant numbers of Australians are homeless. How local governments engage ..

Homelessness and place

A Young, J Petty

Book Chapter  |  2020

A house is more than a place in which we sleep, eat, and store our possessions; housing creates a place that individuals make into..

On visible homelessness and the micro-aesthetics of public space

A Young, James Petty

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

In this article, we investigate the circumstances that have produced the current municipal regulatory approach to homelessness in ..

FROM THE OVERDOSE REPORT TO A NATIONAL NALOXONE DISTRIBUTION TRIAL: AN EXAMPLE OF EFFECTIVE RESEARCH TO POLICY TRANSLATION

James Petty, Rose Crossin, Stephen McNally, John Ryan

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW

Stuck in the feedback loop: News media, local government policy and the criminalisation of visible homelessness’

Alison Young, James Petty

Journal article  |  2019  |  Parity

Cities are perennially concerned with the promotion and maintenance of social order. Its opposite, disorder, is perceived as threa..

The London Spikes Controversy: Homelessness, Urban Securitisation and the Question of 'Hostile Architecture'

James Petty

Journal article  |  2016  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CRIME JUSTICE AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

This article examines an ostensibly new feature of the securitised urban landscape: 'hostile architecture'. Following controversy ..

Violent lives, ending violently? Justice, ideology and spectatorship in Watchmen

J Petty

Book Chapter  |  2015

The first book to do this, Graphic Justice broadens our understanding of law and justice as part of our human world--a world that ..