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Southern Criminology, Zonal Banning and the Language of Urban Crime Prevention

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This chapter examines ‘property’ as a pivotal technology of governance, by analyzing the reemergence of zonal banning as part of an assemblage of exclusionary urban and rural crime control techniques in the English-speaking North and South. Rather than focusing on the concept of zonal banning per se, we suggest Southern criminology is better positioned to interrogate how legal terms produce certain governance assemblages that enable zonal banning to garner social and political legitimacy. We critically examine the term ‘property’ as a necessary precursor to understanding the legal power to ban individuals from designated urban zones, using select examples from the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada. We conclude by reinforcing the importance of Southern epistemology to the comparative examination of language, law and governance.

We thankfully acknowledge Emma Ryan and Monique Mann for providing comments on earlier drafts of this paper, the financial support of the Deakin University Central Research Grants Scheme and the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and Ms Sally Kennedy for her diligent research assistance.

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Warren, I., Palmer, D. (2018). Southern Criminology, Zonal Banning and the Language of Urban Crime Prevention. In: Carrington, K., Hogg, R., Scott, J., Sozzo, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_10

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