CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Racialization, 6 Years, The Roots
29 Sep 2016
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Two components: 40 multiple choice (50% from lectures, 50% from readings) For readings, focus on the main argument: one long answer question (20 marks) Multiple aspects to the question: potential questions. Whatever she doesn"t ask, can be asked in multiple choice. Saying that jails are the new residential schools for aboriginal peoples. Trend in other nations united states, australia, new zealand. Have to go back to colonization (the roots) to understand this overrepresentation. The roots of the crisis of indigenous people in the criminal justice system can be found in colonial dispossession. The politics and outcomes of colonization are not just historical. The contemporary relationship between indigenous people and crime and punishment are structured by these long term relationships. Many aboriginal people feel like they are political prisoners governed by discriminatory laws, and governed by society that"s very foundation is illegal. Before euro colonizers showed up, the aboriginals had their own ways of governing themselves.
