Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Red Zones

Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People

Av Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, Céline Bellot

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Beskrivning

In Red Zones, Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, and Céline Bellot examine the court-imposed territorial restrictions and other bail and sentencing conditions that are increasingly issued in the context of criminal proceedings. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with legal actors in the criminal justice system, as well as those who have been subjected to court surveillance, the authors demonstrate the devastating impact these restrictions have on the marginalized populations - the homeless, drug users, sex workers and protesters - who depend on public spaces. On a broader level, the authors show how red zones, unlike better publicized forms of spatial regulation such as legislation or policing strategies, create a form of legal territorialization that threatens to invert traditional expectations of justice and reshape our understanding of criminal law and punishment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2020-01-02
Mått: 155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt: 560 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 298
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107184237

Utforska kategorier

Kriminologi: juridiska aspekter

Mer om författaren

Marie-Eve Sylvestre is Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and holds the Research Chair on Criminal Law and Policy and the Regulation of Marginalized People. She is also the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society and co-leads the Ottawa Hub for Harm Reduction. She currently acts as Justice Expert for the Commission of Inquiry into the relationships between Indigenous People and Public Services in Quebec. Her research focuses on the criminalization and regulation of poverty and social conflicts in urban public spaces, as well as their alternatives. Nicholas Blomley is Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. He is interested in the spatiality of legal practices and relationships, and the worldmaking consequences of such legal geographies. Much of his empirical work concerns the often oppressive effects of legal relations on marginalized and oppressed people. He is the author or co-editor of five books, including Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power (1994) and Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow (2010). Céline Bellot is Director of the Social Work School at the Université de Montréal and Director of the Observatory on Profiling (Observatoire des profilages). She is the Chair of the Center on Poverty and Social Exclusion (Centre sur la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale) and the Committee on the State of Homelessness. She holds a Ph.D. in Criminology and her research focuses on issues of criminalization of poverty, including homeless populations, Indigenous populations, drug users and street youth.

Recensioner i media

'A brilliant contribution to criminal law and criminal law theory! In their remarkable empirical and legal study on Red Zones, Marie-Eve Sylvestre and her colleagues, Nicholas Blomley and Céline Bellot, show how the quotidian forms of law's technical practices - such as bail and probation supervision - have a momentous impact on the administration of the criminal law, on punishment practices, and on our own understandings and expectations of justice. Chock full of insights about how these practices function to regulate the poor and create both spatial and temporal effects that make rights arguments and resistance far more difficult, Red Zones is a must read for anyone studying criminal law, criminal law theory, and policing.' Bernard E. Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia University

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