CRIM 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jim Crow Laws, White Supremacy, Eurocentrism
8 Dec 2016
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Crim 332 week 3 (sept 22, 2016) Neglect of criminology to deal with marginalization and racism of minority groups-race was simply assumed as a variable (decontextualized) Issue: power relations-political, legal, education, and cultural spheres. Call for the inclusion of visible, racial/ ethical, sexual minorities. Avoid pathologization of minority groups-cultural stereotypes ( problem populations ) Emerged out of critical legal studies/legal scholars in 1970s. Challenged the role of law post-civil rights to achieve further equality & end discrimination. The historical centrality and complicity of law un upholding white supremacy (cornel west, 1995, as cited in inderbitzen, bates gainey, 3013. Examine law and its use to oppress and discriminate form of routine domination (p. 434) Law is not neutral or impartial (ovl) Role/rule of law as a form of power used to subordinate people of colour -> their treatment in the cjs (e. g. over-representation in prison)
