CRM 3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Studies, Miso

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3317
• Professor: Deborah Landry

Document Summary

Double offence female breaking the law and breaking feminine norms. Must be something wrong on the inside that needs to be fixed. Criminalized women expected to see themselves and something within themselves inherently wrong and they need help. Distress tolerance and behavioural management aimed at taming women and behaving in ways that allow prison to operate smoothly. Power imbalances between prisoners and people who are supposed to be giving them treatment. Infotainment recognize even when providing information they also want to entertain you. Bring in theory: foucault subjugated knowledges and coherence. Explanations that social sciences gives us leaves out things. And those left out things are subjugated knowledges: internal coherence. Presenting information within the organizing structure of a narrative. Refers to how the documentary is organized. Drawing upon culturally and politically accepted discourses. Difference is an identity process whereby we reject the parts of ourselves that we find abjection-able: race, class, gender.