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Questioning Banishment From the Ground Up

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ID3977213
AuthorsSteve Herbert (Seattle University), Katherine Beckett (0000-0002-5523-087X, University of Washington)
Year2010
Volume11
Issue3
Pages231-245
Publication date2010-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649361003637661
OpenAlexW2048803916
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited15

Banishment is an increasingly common tool for urban social control. In Seattle and other cities, new tools give the police stronger authority to create and enforce zones of exclusion. Deployed most commonly in neighborhoods populated by homeless people and members of other disadvantaged populations, banishment orders seek to coerce individuals to relocate. As an attempt to reduce crime and disorder, however, we suggest that banishment fails. We demonstrate this by drawing on interviews with forty-one Seattle residents who live with at least one exclusion order to ascertain how their strong connections to place make compliance with banishment an oppressive burden. Even if banishment increases the authority of the police, and thereby helps them to respond to public concern about 'disorder', it makes everyday life more perilous for the socially-marginalized. This suggests that banishment's increased popularity deserves robust contestation

Criminology · Disadvantaged · Political science · Popularity · Social control · Social exclusion · Social science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions

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