CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Jim Crow Laws
23 Nov 2013
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Penitentiary ahs been around for years and we still use it to discipline people and control people. Start to see that the prison system serves more than an apparatus for crime and punishment, but it is actually a way to control the masses. Us incarcerate far more than anyone else in the world: who fills those prisons: lower class individuals, racialized groups. Cannot look at overrepresentation of certain races without looking at colonialisms. Cjs is a system that is developed with other system (economic etc), and it is developed with a colonial context. Just because we change the institutions and change the language around colonialism, doesn"t mean colonialism just stops. So we have to look at colonialism to understand overrepresentation of racial groups. European colonizers were highly dependant on the indigenous people. In canada they did not want to wipe them out completely, so they want to culturalize them slowly.
