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banishment  

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  • a punishment in which the offender is forced to leave his or her original homeland, sometimes to a specified alternative location for a specified period of time. Banishment was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe. [Source: The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice; Banishment]

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