Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 2014, Vol. 47(3) 429–446 ! The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0004865813514064 anj.sagepub.com Article The pursuit of exclusion through zonal banning Darren Palmer Deakin University, Australia Ian Warren Deakin University, Australia Abstract 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 art- icle 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. Keywords Alcohol, banning, exclusion, policing, territory, zones Introduction Links between territory and crime have been a central criminological concern, from the spatialised notions of the ‘rookeries of crime’ during industrialisation, the adaptation of the late 18th century evolutionary theory of Lamarckism and the concerns between space and deviancy (Hayward, 2004), 1 to the early 20th century ‘Chicago School’ con- centric circles examining neighbourhood change and crime patterns. More recent exam- ples, such as the broken windows thesis, focus on how geographic markers such as graffiti and the literal broken window not only represent an already existing level of deviancy but also a causal direction of deviancy amplification unless territorial regener- ation occurs. Other applications of territorial thinking have also emerged in recent Corresponding author: Darren Palmer, Deakin University, Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3217, Australia. Email: darren.palmer@deakin.edu.au at DEAKIN UNIV LIBRARY on November 12, 2015 anj.sagepub.com Downloaded from