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PRLS 2505: Latinxs in the Criminal Justice Complex (Aja)
Week 2: Politics of Crime and the Birth of the Prison
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PRLS 2505: Latinxs in the Criminal Justice Complex (Aja): Week 2: Politics of Crime and the Birth of the Prison
Prof. Aja's Fall 2020 OER
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Weekly Readings Topics
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Week 1: Methodology and Populations
Week 2: Politics of Crime and the Birth of the Prison
Week 3: Criminology / LatinX Criminal Imaginary (pt 1)
Week 4: Criminology / LatinX Criminal Imaginary (pt 2)
Week 5: LatinX Youth and Criminal Justice (pt 1)
Week 6: Criminalization of Immigrant Families
Week 7: Gender, LGBTQ+, Criminal Justice
Week 8: Fight for Survival
Week 9: Student Presentations
Week 10: Crim-imigration / Bio-Politics of Gender
Week 11: Legal Apparatus-State Repression/Structural Violence
Week 12: “Gangs” & Bio-Politics of Data (pt 1)
Week 13: LatinX Youth and Criminal Justice (pt 2)
Week 14: “Gangs” & Bio-Politics of Data (pt 2)
Week 15: Crim-migration Law & Legacy and Culture of Resistance
Week 16: The Question of Reform, Defunding and Abolition
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Week 2
The Politics of Crime and the Birth of the Prison in Western History
Readings
Politics of Injustice (chapter 2)
Beckett, K. & T Sasson, "Crime in the U.S" In The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge, 2000):
The Politics of Injustice (chapter 4)
Beckett, K. & T Sasson, "The Politics of Crime" In The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge, 2000)
Crime and Criminalization (chapter 1)
Hartjen, Clayton A., "Crime: A Matter of Definition," In Crime and Criminalization; NY: Praeger, 1974).
The Politics of Punishment (chapter 1 & 2)
Wright, E.O., "The Meaning of Crime," (Chapter 1) and “The Punishment of Crime,” (Chapter 2) in The Politics of Punishment: A Critical Analysis of Prisons in America (NY: Harper and Row, 1973).
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Foucault, M., Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage, 1977; 2nd ed., 1995, 333 pp,
Discipline & Punish: The Body of the Condemned (Part I, chapter 1)
Foucault, M., Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage, 1977; 2nd ed., 1995.
Discipline & Punish: The Spectacle of the Scaffold (Part I, chapter 2)
Foucault, M., Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage, 1977; 2nd ed., 1995.
Discipline & Punish: The Gentle Way in Punishment (Part 2 chapter 2)
Foucault, M., Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage, 1977; 2nd ed., 1995.
Discipline & Punish: Panopticism (Part 3, Chapter 3)
Foucault, M., Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage, 1977; 2nd ed., 1995.
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