CRM 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White Supremacy, Laissez-Faire, Welfare Capitalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 300
• Professor: anke allspach

Document Summary

Imperialism: 18 and 19th century european imperialism is: the territorial expansion of britain, Imperialism and colonialism: war fare, trade, permanent settlement, transatlantic slavery: institutionalized racism within the mechanisms of global capitalism, justified through race logics. Is not really about non-intervention: but about controlling people to create the socio-economic environments within which (corporate) capitalism can thrive. Increase in tax spending for the: police apparatus: policing and surveillance of non-hegemonic populations: any form of political resistance, aboriginals, racialized others" immigrants = internal colonialism, military apparatus: expansion influence oversees = external colonialism and imperialism, 1. Process: roll-back welfare state spending: privatization of education, welfare and health care, 2. Process: roll-out spending for the police and prison apparatus: state spending goes toward the increase in policing and criminalization of the poor". Increase of inequality, exploitation, poverty (poverty is defined by race, immigration status, age, ability, gender : and the building and maintaining of prisons.