Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People
Cambridge University Press, 1/2/2020
EAN 9781107184237, ISBN10: 1107184231
Hardcover, 298 pages, 23.1 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
List of figures
List of maps
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Table of cases
Table of legislation
1. Navigating the territories of the law
Part I. Foundations
2. Law and territory, a legal geography
3. 'Recognizances to keep the peace and be of good behaviour'
the legal history of red zones and conditions of release
Part II. Expansion
4. Territory widening
5. The shifting and expanding terrain of criminal justice management
Part III. Territorialization and its Consequences
6. Territorializing
how legal territory is made and justified
7. Conditional life inside the red zone
8. Red zoning politics
Conclusion
9. Red zones in and out of the courtroom
Bibliography
Index.