SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Consumerism, Moral Panic, Panopticon
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Stealing to feed your family was gone, it was theft) War on drugs in the last 40 yrs people in prison increased: african american men are majority of them, people of colour are 30% of pop and account for 60% of the prison pop. Laregly happened after the shift in the 70"s crime rates have decreased but fear of victimization has increased criminal justice system contructs race in the states sanctions for non white drugs were 100x worse. Stopping at a stop sign surveillance assemblage theres a lot of different kinds of surveillance and its like what happens if all of this information is put together somewhere like ex. What happens if evryones cellphones goes down at the same time threat of the combination of surveillance technologies. Types of surveillance: traditional security cameras, trained dogs, traffic cameras etc. , non- traditional - certain things that could be used as surveillance, like for ex.
