RT Article
T1 A ‘crimmigrant ban’? Global mobility, urban (in)security and the changing dynamics of judicial practices
JF Punishment & society
VO 25
IS 2
SP 537
OP 554
A1 Di Molfetta, Eleonora
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839536616
AB In the last decades, western countries have developed a set of policies and practices aimed both at crime prevention and social reassurance. Within this trend, the old-fashioned sanction of banishment has regained prominence. Banning orders, in particular, are widely used to remove from public spaces individuals who are deemed a threat to public safety and urban decorum. This article investigates the use of banning orders towards foreign defendants without a valid residence permit in an Italian criminal court. Based on empirical material collected during a one-year period of courtroom ethnography in Turin, this article sheds light on the rationales and objectives behind the use of banning orders. The interviews with courtroom actors reveal how banning orders have lost much of their preventive dimension to become an instrument of socio-urban control towards immigrants. This article invites future research to consider the role that urban management practices might play in the field of global mobility.
K1 Crimmigration
K1 Securitisation
K1 urban policies
K1 foreign nationals
K1 judicial practices
K1 Banishment
DO 10.1177/14624745211047873