In all developed countries - though to widely varying extents - a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. The Labour government in Britain, in particular, has sought to conceptualize and deal with this through the notion of 'Social Exclusion': similar ideas have been found in other countries. Spaces of Social Exclusion explores the forms of this contemporary economic and social disadvantage and, in particular, its social and spatial causes, and the role of space in policies to address disadvantage. The book demonstrates the similarity throughout the advanced capitalist countries of many of the processes that create social exclusion and the way that spatial patterns constitute and reproduce exclusion.