Magistrates enforced place-based belonging by neighborhood in sentencing

Evidence

In discharging defendants with out-of-the-central-city addresses, the magistrate made comments such as the following: … “You stay out in West Philadelphia.” “Stay up in the fifteenth ward; I’ll take care of you up there.” “What are you doing in this part of town? You stay where you belong; we’ve got enough bums down here without you.” — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 511

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete evidence that city dwellers attach people to specific districts—useful alongside Simmel’s blasé urban analysis showing the flip side, that spatial classification substitutes for knowing persons.