ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the need to develop spatially and politically nuanced approaches that can function multi-dimensionally across different scales and power geometries. The start of the twenty-first century was a period when much criminology was in thrall to new technological developments in areas such as crime mapping, surveillance, and biometric security. Spatial criminology can help with this process by critiquing state practices that do not have universality and inclusivity at their core, and challenging forms of urban governance and architectural design that limit spontaneity and conviviality and turn public spaces into non-places. Hence the need for a politically nuanced spatial criminology becomes even more pressing. Looking more to the future, one aspect of public space that will inevitably receive ever more attention is the issue of privacy. Spatial nuance can also be employed to develop alternative policy approaches to, say, homelessness, riots and urban unrest, prostitution, or even alternative policing practices.
