ABSTRACT
Sixth, area studies conducted since the mid-1970s show a changed focus on ‘the manufacture of neighbourhood reputation’, notably in the work by Damer (1974) and Gill (1977). The focus of these studies remains on the housing area and the neighbourhood unit but now includes new notions such as, ‘hierarchies of desirability’ of housing area ‘types’ and types of tenant, the ideology of manufactured reputation, as in Damer’s (1974) ‘dreadful enclosures’, and the differential policing of such areas as prime agents in the production of offending behaviour.
