WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Prison–Industrial Complex, Gender Binary, Welfare Fraud
11 Oct 2018
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Prison-industrial complex: the prison-industrial complex, law and order discourses, structural critiques, producing the gender binary, what(cid:495)s at stake for wgs, walls to bridges. Key terms: prison-industrial complex; ideological mystification; criminalisation of poverty; gender binary in prison; maroon abolitionism (for tutorial) In canada, the indigenous incarceration rate is 10 times higher than the non- Indigenous population. you are 33 times more likely t o be incarcerated. Indigenous women represent the fastest growing prison population, representing some 35% of the federal population of women prisoners (2015-2016) In the u. s. , lgbt and gender nonconforming (gnc) youth are represented in the incarcerated population at a rate of three times the general population. Margarget little & lynne marks : ontario and bc welfare policy: variants on a. Prison binaries: (cid:499)the nervous system that undergirds the expansion of imprisonment and its false assurances of safety and security(cid:499) (cid:523)gordon(cid:524: they disappear: Out of sight, out of mind: what does ideological mystification obscure/disappear? (1) people (2) systemic problems.
