SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Market Discipline, Disorderly House, Neoliberalism
12 Mar 2013
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Legal geography: policing poverty through the regulation of public space. Set rules and how the society behave. Marcus aurelius: poverty is the mother of crime . Old prejudice: the poor are a dangerous lot who will stoop to criminality if given the opportunity. Deny them to vote, deny them to participate in government issues. Anatole france: the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread . A form of discrimination because the wealthy people wont do these things to begin with. Liberal notion of justice: we must all be treated equally before the law. The rule of law: everyone to be treated equally under law. Distinction between the formal side of the law (how the law reads) and it"s actual impact/purpose. History of vagrancy law tells us volumes about the changing conception of urban citizenship.
