Poverty
Define the War on Poverty
Conditions in low-income communities were the result of individuals shortcomings, not structural factors.
Define the War on Crime
An extension of the War on Poverty, which used increased funding to inflate social surveillance and criminalized "delinquent" behavior and disproportionately affected Black, urban, communities.
Define Juvenile Injustice
Name a piece of legislation that encouraged the criminalization of low income individuals?
Ex. The Great Society (Welfare), spending on aerospace rather than social welfare, National Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (skewed data), Economic Opportunity Act (1965)
Name a piece of legislation that strengthened the War on Crime
OLEA, Law Enforcement Assistance Act (1965), National Advisory Commission on Violence and Civil Disorders
Name a piece of legislation that contributed to juvenile injustice
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (1974)
True or False:
Placing emphasis on individual shortcomings and allocating public funds from social welfare to social surveillance and incarceration, led to unemployment and poverty to be at an all time high.
True. Why?
True or False:
As funding for social surveillance increased, so did crime rates.
True. Why?
True or False:
Denver's "Project New Pride" (1974) which used alternatives to incarceration for youth behavior correction and saw youth crime as a educational/employment problem was 90% successful.
True. What can we learn from this?
Give an example of how these policies are affecting the current view of low income individuals
Ex.
Give an example of how these policies are affecting the current carceral state
Ex. Policing, Voting, Demographics of prison population
Give an example of how these policies are affecting the current view of underprivileged youth
Ex. School to Prison Pipeline