CRI491H1 Lecture Notes - Jim Crow Laws, James Forman
Document Summary
Broader issues of society defining issues w/in prison. Jim crow laws racialized, legal form of social control. Trying to avoid class solidarity at all costs. Use of ai in policing now supposedly objective way to avoid racial profiling, etc. Usa w/ largest incarceration rate in the world. Us selling democracy worldwide but doing ^ So not correlation btw actual crime rates to rise in incarceration. Drug crimes not rising, crime rates not rising. Proof that war on drugs working for different reason. How does the us criminal justice system create & maintain racial hierarchy through. Interest convergence civil right wins only bc interests of elite/racists are mass incarceration? converging. About what you have done, not who you are. James forman racial critiques of mass incarceration, beyond the new jim crow. Not saying that new jim crow isn"t true. Need powerful story, but need other things to cover/fix holes in story.
