Using the texts and various materials from the course, explain what they mean. How might the criminal [in]justice system be implicated as state sanctioned violence directed at communities that are already marginalized? Who does this system serve and how has this system been justified? Once you have done this, use a multiply marginalized group (working class Black men/women, formerly incarcerated Latinas, Latinx immigrants, etc.) as an example to explain how their identities render them hyper-vulnerable to not only criminalization but to the perpetuation of other structures of oppression (poverty, degradation of their physical/mental health and wellness, etc.).
A complete answer will discuss, but are not limited to:
The origins of policing and the historical shifts of the criminal justice system.
Cite these shifts as demonstrating that crime is a social construction.
Who historically and contemporaneously benefits from criminalization.
How and why the state justifies/legitimates mass repression in its various forms.
How race and poverty are intricately linked to criminalization AND how oppressed communities have resisted their criminalization.
An example of a multiply marginalized community and how their identities render them vulnerable to criminalization and other oppressions.
A thorough discussion of intersectionality and how it relates to the abov
