weeding out criminals

Martin Schiller mart555 at inow.com
Tue Sep 21 19:40:56 PDT 1999


kelley said on 9/21/99 2:53 PM


>furthermore, you did assume early on in *this* thread that children raised
>by mothers who did n't want them grew up to have criminal proclivities.
>your position demonstrates a profound indifference to the ways in which
>crime is socially constructed--crime rates are not objective, brute facts
>but reflect a society in which certain activities are defined as criminal
>and a world in which certain activities are penalized and prosecuted more
>among some groups than among others. [e.g., crack v. coke possession and
>punishment, targeting neighborhoods, driving while black, white collar
>crime v. crime conventionally defined, etc]

Criminal activity *is* being poor. If I said that they would have proclivities, it was a poor choice of phrase. They're "class" criminals.

See Kirsten's post re homeless. Homelessness is criminal.

Martin



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