Banished - The New Social Control in Urban America

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Beckett: Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Law, Societies & Justice Program at the University of Washington in Seattle and author of (with Theodore Sasson). 2000, 2004. The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment, 2E (Sage 2004) and Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (OUP 1997; sales hc: 1,188 pb: 2,271) Steve Herbert: Professor in the Department of Geography and Law, Societies & Justice Program at the University of Washington in Seattle; author of Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community (Chicago , 2006) and Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department (Minnesota, 1997). Klappentext Banished is an in-depth exploration of new and largely-ignored policing tactics that enforce zones of exclusion in many American cities. Through an exploration of the case of Seattle, Banished charts the rise of these new mechanisms of urban social control, and provides a thorough and critical assessment of their effectiveness. Zusammenfassung Banished is an in-depth exploration of new and largely-ignored policing tactics that enforce zones of exclusion in many American cities. Through an exploration of the case of Seattle, Banished charts the rise of these new mechanisms of urban social control, and provides a thorough and critical assessment of their effectiveness.

Product details

• Authors: Beckett, Katherine Beckett, Katherine/ Herbert Beckett, Beckett Katherine, Steve Herbert, Herbert Steve
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2009
• EAN: 9780195395174
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539517-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy; Studies in Crime and Public Po
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Poverty & unemployment, United States of America, USA, Urban communities, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness, Urban communities / city life