Yesterday we visited a lecture about the American Justice
System. At the beginning the prof made us fill out a poll with questions about
the crimes we previously committed and then started her lecture. She asked
questions like ‘what is a just punishment’ or what explains racial inequality
in prison and talked about Michel Foucault and his understanding of modern
punishment.
Before the lecture I did not know that the incarceration
rate is the highest in the USA because they imprison people for drug use or
drug possession more often than other countries. The racial inequality has to
do with (as you can predict) with heavier police presence in particular neighborhoods,
harsher sentencing of people of color and so many other reasons. I also learned
that Michel Foucault sees the modern way of punishment critical. The reason is
that nowadays you punish souls instead of bodies.
That and many more things was what I learned in the lecture
and I am delighted to visit the lecture next week about ‘Black Lives Matter’.
Keine Kommentare:
Kommentar veröffentlichen