CRM 4302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: De Jure, Swift Justice, Conservative Revolutionary Movement

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 4302
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

African americans and punishment for crime: a critique of mainstream and neoliberal discourses. With the devastating effects of the school- to-prison pipeline, and its insidious campaign to push students out of schools, he concluded that in the. In fact, the system"s obsession with physical harm against black bodies dates back to slavery. As a result, race is lost within an ideological framework that only sees the criminal act: through this framework, the criminal justice system perpetuates more injustice than it does justice, and it does so virtually in silence. Sykes (1971) describes goods and services as access to legitimate healthcare, food, and proper room and board. For example, research has purported that white racists are likely to support tougher correctional policies when the crime is related to race. In addition, even when controlling for nonracial extralegal factors that may influence sentencing, defendants accused of murdering white victims are likely to be sentenced to death than those accused of killing blacks.