CRM 4302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Prison Reform, Unintended Consequences, Social Inequality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 4302
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

Five theses on mass incarceration: according to the latest data published by the bureau of justice statistics, in 2014 the prison population of the united states stood at 1,561,500. Discursive formations that have emerged over the past few years around the us prison crisis, and to offer some alternative ideas for a radical-reformist agenda against mass incarceration. And to a great extent against official reform circles. Thesis 4 no end to the penal state without a radical reform of policing. In a radically democratized public space liberated from the deadly tentacles of the penal state, the police will no longer act as the discriminatory enforcer of an oppressive social order against the most marginal fractions of the population. Thesis 5 the struggle for decarceration is a struggle against transcarceration. In this case, the unmet needs of these populations can trigger survival strategies that in turn result in further processes of criminalization and institutionalization.