WMST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Norm (Social), Heteronormativity
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Women of color,globalization, and the politics of incarceration, julia sudbury. Resulting from globalization, cuts to social welfare programs. With no financial aid they result to crime, thus turning those activities into criminalizing. Overlapping interests of government and industry that use policing and imprisonment as solutions to economic,social and political problems. Government/industry solve the problems of economic, social and class problems. The role women play in drug organization. The u. s has less tan 5% of the world population but 25 are in prison. The process through which people who do not fit dominant social norms are labeled as criminals. Their circumstances and behaviors are defined as crimes. Either breaking a social norm or a danger to others. This means that judges cannot sentence people to jail for being too poor to pay court fines. Forced relocation of japanese americans into incarceration camps during ww2. Surveillance and detention of arab, muslim men following 9/11.
