SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neoconservatism, Young Offenders Act, Neoliberalism
13 Mar 2018
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Gender ratio problem: why 80:20: what are analytic or explanatory differences between men and women"s criminalization, chivalry thesis, women"s liberation thesis, power control theory. Need for intersectional analysis of race, class, and gendered experiences. Pathways debate: trauma as trajectory towards offending coping, resisting, surviving, prison reforms: therapeutic not punitive, carceral feminism, victimization overshadows racialized rates of poverty sovereignty vs sexual violence, women"s own capacity for violence untheorized. Self-change: choosing to change: participate in her own empowerment, control own risk-generating behavior defiance, un-cooperativeness, empowerment as self-discipline, failure to change: coercive punishment. Criminalization of youth: young people are becoming increasingly violent, young people need to be controlled and punished more harshly, youth incarceration rate highest in the na for indigenous children, homelessness, sexual exploitation tina fontaine. Historical overview: jda linked to rise of capitalism, work outside the home in factories separated children from family support, need for state to devise institutional response to supervise youth schools, reformatories, training schools.
