SOCL 7591 Lecture : CRIMINAL VIOLENCE 3510 FIRST HALF OF SUMMER 2012 NOTES
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Comes from limited sources (between 17 and 1800"s) Early settlement: 3 periods marked with a lot of violence. Displacement of native people (talked about as savages = less than human status = makes it easier to kill them) By the late 1800"s = pretty much all native people were on reservations. Slavery = people owned by people (mistreatment) * process and system of human bondage, inherently violent. * south had slave trade because it benefited them economically. to harm or kill slaves = because they were property and you didn"t want to destroy your property. U. s. would make and break treaties: most died of exposure and. Found gold and forced natives to migrate 800 miles = When you have a system (hierarchy), and it is disturbed, people don"t know were they belong = anime. Civil war: people were just killed to kill people. Some conflicts were particularly atrocious (40% of men were eliminated)
