Let's say that in an Ancap society you have a group of people known as outlaws. These are people who are no longer afforded the protection of PDAs because of their failure to make amends for criminal actions or violations of contractual obligations. They are banished to the modern day equivalent of Sherwood Forest. A few questions follow from this status
1) What would be the threshhold of declaring somebody an outlaw? Would repeated petty offenses coupled with the failure to recompense the victim qualify somebody for outlaw status?
2) Would an outlaw have any legal protection or would he be a non-person? In other words, could an outlaw be hunted from a Jeep with no legal consequences?
3) How do folks on this board feel about banishment and-or shunning vs. imprisonment?
I suppose if there are enough outlaws they could create a community where they have protection.
Someone who is convicted of a violent tort and fails to offer just rendition; i.e. you kill a man and won't show up to pay your weregelt or do time in the slave camp, etc.
Outlaws are outside the law. They have the same rights as wild deer; i.e. whatever anyone wants to give them. However, if they are on someone else's property they can forbid you from shooting or eating them or whatever.
I am against imprisonment unless it is voluntary. I have no problem with indentured servitude or work-camps, but prison is just kidnapping. Of course if a person is a killer and refuses to show up and pay for their crimes then they're outlaws and can be imprisoned or enslaved.