SOC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transformative Justice, Nils Christie, Structural Level
Document Summary
Finishing critical crim- beginning restorative and transformative justice: reading for this week: kearney healy- letter from sask youth court, posted article by rob white. Review: global inequalities, neoliberalism ideologies and criminal justice policy: rather than addressing problem on structural level, blame people for their own poverty and criminality. Define the shift as moving from the welfare state to repressive state. Most vulnerable people ae raw material for prison industrial complex, imprisonment of poor and racism minorities is a complex political act. Engages offenders, holds them accountable: non-adversarial and non-retributive, healing for victims and meaningful accountability for offenders.
