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BanishedThe New Social Control In Urban America$
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Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America

Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780195395174

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395174.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

Chapter:
Introduction
Source:
Banished
Author(s):

Katherine Beckett

Steve Herbert

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395174.003.0001

This chapter introduces the concept of banishment. It discusses the return of banishment through the stories of three individuals in Seattle, who supposedly violated the trespass law and drug traffic loitering ordinance. It then analyzes the return of banishment, which is widely considered as an archaic legal practice. Another archaic legal practice discussed in this chapter is the revival of police power. The chapter also explains why the study focuses on the rise of banishment in Seattle and provides an outline of the chapters that follow.

Keywords:   banishment, Seattle, police power, trespass law, drug traffic loitering ordinance

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