CRM 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Patricia Pearson, Social Class, Class Discrimination
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Setting the stage: defining the unruly (locating our deviance) Midterm: 2 fill in the blanks, 14 true and false, 4 multiple choice. What race are majority of women in prison: white. Women who are in the prisons have has past experiences of: abuse. First nations and indigenous women are making a run to be the most represented in the prison (only 4% of overall canadian population though: they get penalized higher than even men do. Upholding hierarchies through voluntary, non-penal site of governance: silence on the role of men in prostitution, silent on the role of social structures. Recognized the force of social structures, but refused to address real lack of opportunities. Class was criminogenic (like first nations in saskatchewan) Different history of how we criminalize women. Women"s unruly bodies: deviant from the beginning because we are different from men.