CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indian Act, Class Conflict, Totalitarianism
30 Mar 2019
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Modern ones are generally constitutional: democracy: generally, is representative rather than fully participatory. Affluent industrial societies tend to be democracies: authoritarianism: political system that denies popular participation in the government, totalitarianism: political system that extensively regulates people"s lives. For example: drugs are illegal while tobacco and alcohol remain legal because, between 1908-1929, Parliament passed a series of harsh anti-drug laws. 60% of users were female: average age was 40, educated and from upper/middle class, more likely to be white, to help deal with menopause. Narcotics legislation: opium act (1908), origins with mackenzie king - deputy labour minister, anti-asiatic riots 1907, payment of compensation, opium was easy to purchase, racial conflict. 2: racial conflicts and cultural stereotypes produced drugs acts. If we got rid of the opium act, it will solve the problems. "the law would serve to socially construct a criminal pathology.
