HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Amherstburg, Discourse Analysis
30 Sep 2016
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Looking at doug hay because of his theory of the death penalty as not only punishment, but also social factors; death penalty helps construct and constructed by ways that enforce hierarchies of gender, race and class. Pilotte was not executed because she was a woman- did not transcend (overstep) her gender identity (what women were supposed to be) given leniency because gender. Amherstburg case: was a racialized man and there is power at play; instantly more threatening. How unwritten law has influenced jury decision in na. People have different sense of unwritten law; affected by race, class and gender. Power; police getting let off, and men having larger sentences because stronger. Article starting off focusing on justice reform and legal modernization. Rapid industrializing of the western world; movement from rural to urban; leading to social issues and cultural clashes within society. Moral reform changing notions of white middle-class ideologies as legal standards, government standards, consumer standards.
