Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Steve Herbert, Katherine Beckett

Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

Steve Herbert, Katherine Beckett

216 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values a...

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