SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Slavery, Mass Incarceration, Loïc Wacquant
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Prisons as warehouses for social problems ignored by other public institutions (p 21) What were once thought of as last resorts Dominant strategy] for dealing with the problems of urban social disorder . Bleak employment outcomes among ex-offenders due to: Employment problems for much of the population pre-dates their incarceration. Employers may interpret gaps in employment history. Using fictitious resumes white and black males paired and sent out for the same jobs half of each group had convictions to report, half didn"t. Can you combat/explain away effect with . Young + black + male is now openly equated with probable cause justifying the arrest, questioning, bodily search and detention of millions of african-american males every year. - loic wacquant. Social institutions that define, confine and control certain groups poor, african- Allows you to extract black labor while maintaining appropriate (i. e. safe) social distance from whites. Each system sought to contain/control and exploit african-americans.
