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Banished - The New Social Control in Urban America (Hardcover)
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Banished - The New Social Control in Urban America (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy
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With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the
homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public
space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill
effects their presence inflicts on property values and public
safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced "zero-tolerance"
or "broken window" policing efforts to clear the streets of
unwanted people. Through an almost completely unnoticed set of
practices, these people are banned from occupying certain spaces.
Once zoned out, they are subject to arrest if they
return-effectively banished from public places.
Banished is the first exploration of these new tactics that
dramatically enhance the power of the police to monitor and arrest
thousands of city dwellers. Drawing upon an extensive body of data,
the authors chart the rise of banishment in Seattle, a city on the
leading edge of this emerging trend, to establish how it works and
explore its ramifications. They demonstrate that, although the
practice allows police and public officials to appear responsive to
concerns about urban disorder, it is a highly questionable policy:
it is expensive, does not reduce crime, and does not address the
underlying conditions that generate urban poverty. Moreover,
interviews with the banished themselves reveal that exclusion makes
their lives and their path to self-sufficiency immeasurably more
difficult.
At a time when more and more cities and governments in the U.S. and
Europe resort to the criminal justice system to solve complex
social problems, Banished provides a vital and timely challenge to
exclusionary strategies that diminish the life circumstances and
rights of those it targets.
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