Policing the Void: Recreation, Social Inclusion and the Baltimore Police Athletic League

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dc.contributor.authorBustad, Jacob J.
dc.contributor.authorAndrews, David L.
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-29T19:59:23Z
dc.date.available2017-06-29T19:59:23Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-29
dc.description.abstractIn 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).en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M29882M9G
dc.identifier.citationSocial Inclusion, 2017, Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 241–249en_US
dc.identifier.issn2183–2803
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19587
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCogitatioen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtSchool of Public Healthen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtKinesiologyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectneoliberalismen_US
dc.subjectpoliceen_US
dc.subjectphysical activityen_US
dc.subjectrecreationen_US
dc.subjectsocial problems industryen_US
dc.subjectsporten_US
dc.subjecturbanen_US
dc.titlePolicing the Void: Recreation, Social Inclusion and the Baltimore Police Athletic Leagueen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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