Why are racial minorities in the US and Australia more likely to come under the gaze of the criminal justice system? How can this be remedied? (Make sure to use theoretical perspectives and course resources from week 10 in your answer).
A key postmodernist theorist was Michael Foucault, proposes in ‘Discipline and Punish’, that Bentham’s Panopticon represents the structure of society itself, in that citizens exercise constant control depending on circumstances and ideas. (White, Haines and Asquith, 2012). Foucault argues that power and control is filtered throughout society; one group does not just own it (White, Haines and Asquith, 2012). As Foucault highlights, not long after imprisonment is used as the primary mode of punishment, prison …show more content…
we have been ruled under a colonial ideology (White, Haines and Asquith, 2012). Indigenous Australians are incarcerated at a rate of 2, 253 in 100, 000 in comparison to the non-indigenous 146 in 100, 000 (Rattan, Mountain, and Anthony, 2017). Factors behind the over representation of Indigenous Australians incarcerated are racial bias, poverty, unemployment, and dispossession (Haines, White and Asquith, 2012). Birch (2017) discusses that when you put an idea out in the public domain from our history, and you make a claim at the legitimacy of these tragic and horrendous acts of violence, often against Indigenous Australians. A necessary response to evoke change is to recognise our heinous acts of violence and take responsibility for our history of depriving our indigenous community of their freedom (Birch, …show more content…
(2017). How do we remember our colonial past? ~ Tony Birch | TheJuiceMedia on Patreon. [online] Patreon. Available at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-do-we-our-1847118 [Accessed 7 Apr. 2017].
Hall, C. (2016, September 26). The racist ideas of slave owners are still with us today | Catherine Hall. Retrieved April 02, 2017, from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/26/racist-ideas-slavery-slave-owners-hate-crime-brexit-vote
Lott, T. L., & Pittman, J. P. (2006). A Companion to African-American philosophy. Malden: Blackwell.
McIntosh, P. White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Independent School, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Winter 1990), pp. 31-35.
Rattan, R., Mountain, W. and Anthony, T. (2017). Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance. [online] The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/indigenous-incarceration-in-australia-at-a-glance-57821 [Accessed 7 Apr. 2017].
Stevenson, B. (2012, March). We need to talk about an injustice [Video file]. Retrieved April 7, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=en#t-1266325
White, R. D., Haines, F., Asquith, N. L., & White, R. D. (2012). Crime & criminology. South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University
A key postmodernist theorist was Michael Foucault, proposes in ‘Discipline and Punish’, that Bentham’s Panopticon represents the structure of society itself, in that citizens exercise constant control depending on circumstances and ideas. (White, Haines and Asquith, 2012). Foucault argues that power and control is filtered throughout society; one group does not just own it (White, Haines and Asquith, 2012). As Foucault highlights, not long after imprisonment is used as the primary mode of punishment, prison …show more content…
we have been ruled under a colonial ideology (White, Haines and Asquith, 2012). Indigenous Australians are incarcerated at a rate of 2, 253 in 100, 000 in comparison to the non-indigenous 146 in 100, 000 (Rattan, Mountain, and Anthony, 2017). Factors behind the over representation of Indigenous Australians incarcerated are racial bias, poverty, unemployment, and dispossession (Haines, White and Asquith, 2012). Birch (2017) discusses that when you put an idea out in the public domain from our history, and you make a claim at the legitimacy of these tragic and horrendous acts of violence, often against Indigenous Australians. A necessary response to evoke change is to recognise our heinous acts of violence and take responsibility for our history of depriving our indigenous community of their freedom (Birch, …show more content…
(2017). How do we remember our colonial past? ~ Tony Birch | TheJuiceMedia on Patreon. [online] Patreon. Available at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-do-we-our-1847118 [Accessed 7 Apr. 2017].
Hall, C. (2016, September 26). The racist ideas of slave owners are still with us today | Catherine Hall. Retrieved April 02, 2017, from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/26/racist-ideas-slavery-slave-owners-hate-crime-brexit-vote
Lott, T. L., & Pittman, J. P. (2006). A Companion to African-American philosophy. Malden: Blackwell.
McIntosh, P. White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Independent School, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Winter 1990), pp. 31-35.
Rattan, R., Mountain, W. and Anthony, T. (2017). Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance. [online] The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/indigenous-incarceration-in-australia-at-a-glance-57821 [Accessed 7 Apr. 2017].
Stevenson, B. (2012, March). We need to talk about an injustice [Video file]. Retrieved April 7, 2017, from https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=en#t-1266325
White, R. D., Haines, F., Asquith, N. L., & White, R. D. (2012). Crime & criminology. South Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University