SOC 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration
4 May 2018
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SOC 214: Crime and Criminal Justice
Week 13: Chapter 5, The New Jim Crow
❖ Overview
o History of racialized social control
▪ How did we get here
▪ Systematic control
• Slavery
• Jim Crow
• Mass incarceration
▪ System dies and is reborn into a new system
o Structure of mass incarceration and war on drugs
▪ Few rules for law enforcement
▪ $ incentives
▪ Denial of representation in court
o Racial disparities across criminal justice process
o The prison label and a permanent undercaste
▪ Food stamps voting
▪ Housing
▪ Education
▪ Work
❖ Similarities and Differences between JC and mass incarceration
o Similarities
▪ Legalized racial discrimination
• Marginalization
• Segregation
• Authorization of discrimination
▪ Defines race in the US
o Differences
▪ Exploit and control black labour vs. warehousing a
population
▪ Effect on white people
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