LAWS 3904 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kellie Leitch, White Supremacy, Constitution Of South Africa
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Laws 3904b - lecture 6 (prisoners and prisonhood) Started course with women personhood, taught us that someone could be excluded from being a person prior to the person"s case. Also looked at past slavery in the united states. The next week we talked about corporations as person"s: taught us that a. person does not necessarily have to be a human being criminality constructed through fear e. g. what the media portrays. Two readings discussed in class (plaxton 2010 & parkers 2005) Teaches through one"s action or social setting that you can be excluded form personhood. We learned they were individuals that broke the law. Criminality is represented through the media (tv shows and movies) and portray criminals as crazy terrible psychopaths with behavioral issues always about murders, never someone stealing a loaf of bread (portrays criminality in a certain light) Article 1) parkers 2005 - prisoner voting rights in canada: rejecting the. State"s that prisoners are temporary outcasts in our system.
