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The pursuit of exclusion through zonal banning

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posted on 2024-06-03, 10:15 authored by D Palmer, Ian WarrenIan Warren
In recent years, a growing emphasis has been placed on the use of zonal banning to address violence and anti-social behaviour associated with alcohol consumption. While we recognise the longer historical links between territory and crime, this article focuses on recent efforts to govern territory through new zonal regulations. Recent processes in Australia involve the conflation criminal law principles with processes of managing order in and around private spaces through new administrative approaches to alcohol-related law enforcement. The article outlines the nature of sub-sovereign ‘police laws’ and the extent to which they have been used based on Victorian data. We conclude by suggesting these developments need ongoing critical scrutiny given evidence of the ongoing expansion of proprietary-based principles in the management of urban disorder, and the potential for these developments to promote the increased use of surveillance technologies to exclude undesirable populations from the night- time economies of Australian cities.

History

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Volume

47

Article number

7

Pagination

429-446

Location

Australia

ISSN

1837-9273

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2014, SAGE publications

Issue

3

Publisher

SAGE Publications