SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oscar Lewis, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Ontario Human Rights Code
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One of the most dishonourable traditions of our criminal law has been to overtly criminalize poverty, and to keep the poor off the streets and out of sight. The first vagrancy law in canada was probably passed in. The first national vagrancy legislation was passed in 1869. Early laws characterized vagrants as insolent, lazy, worthless fellows (ranasinghe 2010:60-61). Welfare state: a society where the state intervenes within processes of economic reproduction and distribution to reallocate life chances between individuals or classes. The collection of social insurance and assistance programs that offer income protection to victims of unemployment, industrial accidents, retirement, disability, illness, death of a family breadwinner, or extreme poverty. The welfare state does not always act as a mechanism that intervenes in, and corrects, structure of inequality; it can create and legitimate stratification. The most common definition is found in citizenship and.
