Drawing perspectives from critical criminology, cultural criminology, green criminology, aesthetic criminology, visual criminology, sensory criminology and the social harm perspective, the book considers sensory and emotive elements of urban incivilities and harm, as well as issues of structure and power.

Nina PerSak is Scientific Director of the Institute for Criminal-Law Ethics and Criminology in Ljubljana and Visiting Professor of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She holds a doctorate in law from University of Ljubljana and an LLM (law) and MPhil (social and developmental psychology) from University of Cambridge. Her research interests lie in the areas of criminalisation, criminal policy, human rights, social control, victimology, socio-legal studies and social psychology.

Anna Di Ronco is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Sociology Department of the University of Essex and Deputy Director for its Centre for Criminology. She holds a doctorate in criminology from Ghent University, Belgium. Before starting her PhD, she completed a five-year degree in law at the University of Trento, Italy. Dr Di Ronco's main research interests cover the regulation, representation and enforcement of incivilities in the urban space, and individuals' and groups' resistance to social control in the physical and digital space.

1. Incivilities, harm and social control in urban space Part One 2. Exploring sound and noise in the urban environment: Tensions between cultural expression and municipal control, health and inequality, police power and resistance 3.Sounds dangerous: Black music subcultures as victims of state regulation and social control 4.Offending sights and urban governance: Expectations of city aesthetics and spatial responses to the unsightly 5.Green criminology perspective on light pollution 6.When the city smells: Perceptions of decay and physical disorder in Rome Part Two 7.Emotion and the city: Emotive dimensions of incivilities and of their urban social control 8.Power at play: The policing of sex work across two European cities 9.Structural violence, deviance and social control in the urban life and space 10.The sensory, emotive and power dimensions of incivilities and their social control in the city