CRIM 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nimby, Neoliberalism, Jiwani
8 Dec 2016
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Context: neoliberalism with a focus on a law & order agenda, tough on crime, post-welfarism state with social programs/safety nets, tight fiscal policies: 80s -> shift to conservative politics. Revisiting the charter of rights and freedoms. Equality rights recognized, but how do we conceptualize economic rights: protections from poverty, homelessness & security of the person. Flashback to comack on equality and justice (social justice): the rich and the poor alike are forbidden from sleeping under bridges (amster, 2003, as cited in. Tamara starblanket: genocide, indigenous nations and the canadian state. United nations convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, Social justice, then is about the distributions of respect, freedom, dignity, participation in meaningful work, access to health, education, housing, medical care, and collective wealth . The distributions of well-being, pain, suffering, and harm and crime are fundamentally issues of how crime and social life is organized (tifft, 2000, p. 46)
