Crime Control And Social Welfare Policy
Stephen Jackson B8521612 ETMA03
How does the concept of ‘problem’ populations highlight the ‘entangled’ nature of relationship between crime control and social welfare policy ?In what ways does the entanglement raise issues of social justice?
This assignment will demonstrate how the concept of problem populations highlights the complex entanglements of social welfare policies and crime control. I will be drawing on evidence which demonstrates how these policies raise issues of social justice.
The first example to be used is that of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the city of New Orleans on 29th August 2005.This catastrophe left over one thousand dead and left thousands homeless, without drinking water, food or sanitation. Prior to the …show more content…
Social tension was a regular factor culminating in the unrest in 2005, which is seen by some commentators “ as rebellion against police harassment, poverty and the racism of the French society” (Mooney 2008,p.111).
Social justice involves “having the capabilities to voice feelings opinions and for these to be heard…being recognised and respected”( Widderson 2008p.67). Protest and contesting has long been a way of challenging social injustice eg the movement for black equality in the U.S. which has through time helped to change social welfare policy.
Although it can be argued that rioting was not the way to be heard, the social injustice felt by these people led them to take this drastic action. The
B8521612 ETMA03 resulting reaction from the French government in even more restrictive policing demonstrates the entanglement between the need for social justice to alleviate poverty and the need for crime control to prevent harm to …show more content…
Defined as other or othering a term used to categorise people seen as underserving eg the poor, single mothers and some migrant groups. “This social devaluation is an important dimension of social injustice and it compounds inequalities of material resources and infringes human and citizenship rights leading to problems being defined, diagnosed and policies developed and targeted at them to ‘cure’ them” (Young, 2008,page 124 ).
Policies aimed at the unemployed, which carry penalties such as loss of benefits if a claimant doesn’t follow the rules laid down when seeking work. Crimes of social harm against a group already hit by benefit cuts introduced in many European countries and the U.S.A. due to the economic
How does the concept of ‘problem’ populations highlight the ‘entangled’ nature of relationship between crime control and social welfare policy ?In what ways does the entanglement raise issues of social justice?
This assignment will demonstrate how the concept of problem populations highlights the complex entanglements of social welfare policies and crime control. I will be drawing on evidence which demonstrates how these policies raise issues of social justice.
The first example to be used is that of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the city of New Orleans on 29th August 2005.This catastrophe left over one thousand dead and left thousands homeless, without drinking water, food or sanitation. Prior to the …show more content…
Social tension was a regular factor culminating in the unrest in 2005, which is seen by some commentators “ as rebellion against police harassment, poverty and the racism of the French society” (Mooney 2008,p.111).
Social justice involves “having the capabilities to voice feelings opinions and for these to be heard…being recognised and respected”( Widderson 2008p.67). Protest and contesting has long been a way of challenging social injustice eg the movement for black equality in the U.S. which has through time helped to change social welfare policy.
Although it can be argued that rioting was not the way to be heard, the social injustice felt by these people led them to take this drastic action. The
B8521612 ETMA03 resulting reaction from the French government in even more restrictive policing demonstrates the entanglement between the need for social justice to alleviate poverty and the need for crime control to prevent harm to …show more content…
Defined as other or othering a term used to categorise people seen as underserving eg the poor, single mothers and some migrant groups. “This social devaluation is an important dimension of social injustice and it compounds inequalities of material resources and infringes human and citizenship rights leading to problems being defined, diagnosed and policies developed and targeted at them to ‘cure’ them” (Young, 2008,page 124 ).
Policies aimed at the unemployed, which carry penalties such as loss of benefits if a claimant doesn’t follow the rules laid down when seeking work. Crimes of social harm against a group already hit by benefit cuts introduced in many European countries and the U.S.A. due to the economic