CRM 3301 Lecture 5: Colonial Criminology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3301
• Professor: Baljit Nagra

Document Summary

Locates the cause of crime as a result of the oppression, alienation and inequalities that exist in a colonial society. Crime is a response to oppressive colonial conditions and violence as a result of alienation. To understand what is happening, we need to look back. It is a stolen land, it was formed through the eradication of first nation communities. Colonial criminology puts forth this idea that in order to understand why they are so over represented in the system, we need to look at the oppression, alienation and inequalities in colonial society. Colonialism is not just a bad area in history, it is still happening today just in different ways. They try and look at the toll that colonial processes have put on first nation communities. The four phase colonial model: the for(cid:272)ed i(cid:374)(cid:448)asio(cid:374) of (cid:858)(cid:858)a s(cid:373)all (cid:373)i(cid:374)orit(cid:455) of outsiders(cid:859)(cid:859) to a (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455) for the pri(cid:373)ar(cid:455) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e to o(cid:271)tai(cid:374) (cid:858)(cid:858)(cid:448)alua(cid:271)le e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) resour(cid:272)es(cid:859)(cid:859)