Hazel is disowned and goes to live in the city slums.
The question they are deciding is whether the defendant, a young teenage boy from a city slum, murdered his father.
In the past, she'd turned her court into a desert, an arctic waste, and an inner city slum.
The latter produced an influential report recommending the clearing of city slums in Dublin.
The area was developed for council housing during the 1920s, with well over 1,000 families moving to the area from dilapidated inner city slums.
The idea of a city slum brings to mind densely packed buildings, a teeming population.
The story begins in a courtroom where a teenage boy from a city slum is on trial for stabbing his father to death.
In rural areas and city slums, residents say they now stay indoors at night for fear of what have become known as "silent killings."
A maze of inner city slums had helped breed revolts in Paris from 1830 to 1848.
They take up residence in a city slum near a slaughterhouse.