Penal Boundaries: Banishment and the Expansion of Punishment

Beckett, Katherine; Herbert, Steve

doi:10.1111/j.1747-4469.2009.01176.x

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“…Land use regulations recuperate universality through property-centric moral-aesthetic rationales, such as that of “improvement” or “nuisance” (GHERTNER 2012; GIDWANI 2008: 68–137), and through a power to make exceptions to its own rules (VALVERDE 2009), such as with designations of “non-conforming use” and “special” and “conditional” permits. These rationales and exceptionalisms achieve a social ordering by suppressing, excluding, or banishing some (BECKETT & HERBERT 2010) or granting impunity to others (LIPPERT & WILLIAMS 2012). In the uneven application of land use regulations, broader social tensions around inequality find their technical-territorial “fix” (CHIODELLI 2012).…”

Section: Territorializing Law: Police Power Property and Implied Comentioning

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From Outlaw to Citizen: Police Power, Property, and the Territorial Politics of Medical Marijuana in California's Exurbs

Polson

2015

Territory, Politics, Governance

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As governments worldwide justify the transformation of marijuana governance from one police power (law enforcement) to others (e.g. public health, zoning), the place of marijuana in lawful society is transforming rapidly. No venue in California is more central to this than land use regulatory bodies, which decide how marijuana rights, practices, and relations become territorial. Land use powers, as a declaration of the state’s police power, require a definitional rendering of “community.” This article analyzes an episode of outdoor marijuana cultivation policymaking and the struggles over the definition of community in a conservative exurban California county. From debates on fences, property line setbacks, rental terms, and nuisance complaints to racial and economic anxieties and the roaming stigma of crime, marijuana advocates confronted a powerful logic of private property and the moral-aesthetic propriety it implies. Despite the subordination of advocates’ claims to the terms of private property, outlaw communities sustained their own forms of territorial governance, informal regulatory and enforcement powers, and understandings of community. This episode, which illuminates territorial production across illegal/legal lines, has implications for understandings of liberal rule of law, political possibility, and the practice of citizenship.

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Section: Territorializing Law: Police Power Property and Implied Comentioning

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From Outlaw to Citizen: Police Power, Property, and the Territorial Politics of Medical Marijuana in California's Exurbs

Polson

2015

Territory, Politics, Governance

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“…Such a characterization squares with work by Goffman (2009) and Beckett and Herbert (2010), suggesting that contemporary policing strategies may contribute to the erosion of social networks and community in poor neighborhoods.…”

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Older Men’s Social Integration After Prison

Wyse

2016

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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This study explores the social integration processes older men experience following prison release. Semi-structured in-depth interviews and brief surveys were conducted with 20 men, 50 years of age and older, recently released from prison in a large, Eastern US city. A follow-up interview was conducted with each participant. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze these data. Results show that, while men are able to connect with and rely upon some family members and establish basic public benefits, older men’s release experience is nonetheless marked by pervasive disconnection from key desired social relationships and roles. Policies and programs designed to facilitate older men’s social integration are discussed.

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“…Geographers emphasize how public spaces shopping malls, BIAs, plazas, parks, and sidewalks -are reworked to privilege consumption, to exclude people without acceptably lifestyle or income, and to quell democratic uses of public space (Low, Taplin, & Scheld, 2005;Rankin & Delaney, 2011;Staeheli & Mitchell, 2004). Policing and disciplinary control of public spaces has intensified in North America, such that the "right to simply be" in urban public spaces is criminalized or subject to sanction, which has meant that poor and marginalized people must develop new ad hoc strategies to survive (Beckett & Herbert, 2010;Blomley, 2004;Mitchell & Heynen, 2009).…”

Section: Privatizing Social Reproduction and Urban Spatial Politicsmentioning

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“Our Public Library”: Social reproduction and urban public space in Toronto

Frederiksen

2015

Women's Studies International Forum

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Penal Boundaries: Banishment and the Expansion of Punishment

Abstract: The deepest meaning of spatial separation was the banning or suspension of communication, and so the forcible perpetuation of estrangement.

Cited by 120 publications

References 30 publications

From Outlaw to Citizen: Police Power, Property, and the Territorial Politics of Medical Marijuana in California's Exurbs

From Outlaw to Citizen: Police Power, Property, and the Territorial Politics of Medical Marijuana in California's Exurbs

Older Men’s Social Integration After Prison

“Our Public Library”: Social reproduction and urban public space in Toronto

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