Marginalized and Monitored

Abstract

Today’s day, scholars speak of a trend named criminalization of homelessness as society’s marginalized groups increasingly face so-called experience anti-homeless laws and being excluded from public spaces. At the same time, municipalities privatize public space to recapture territory, for example transforming them into shopping malls. Utrecht’s Hoog Catharijne, sharing a long history with homeless people, is such secured environment. This study shows that, after its completion of the renovation