Weaponization and Prisonization of Toronto’s Black Male Youth
Informed by Galtung (1969), Anderson (2012) and Wacquant (2001), this paper argues that a lifetime of spiralling and everyday state structural violence and overtly racist criminal profiling principally targeted at young Black men living in the Toronto Community Housing Corporation prepares them for...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d5f3ef48bafa49a79dd907467a07daa8 2023-05-15T16:16:17+02:00 Weaponization and Prisonization of Toronto’s Black Male Youth Wesley Crichlow 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v3i3.120 https://doaj.org/article/d5f3ef48bafa49a79dd907467a07daa8 EN eng Queensland University of Technology https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/120 https://doaj.org/toc/2202-7998 https://doaj.org/toc/2202-8005 2202-7998 2202-8005 doi:10.5204/ijcjsd.v3i3.120 https://doaj.org/article/d5f3ef48bafa49a79dd907467a07daa8 International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 113-131 (2014) Social Sciences H Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology HV1-9960 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v3i3.120 2022-12-31T09:08:52Z Informed by Galtung (1969), Anderson (2012) and Wacquant (2001), this paper argues that a lifetime of spiralling and everyday state structural violence and overtly racist criminal profiling principally targeted at young Black men living in the Toronto Community Housing Corporation prepares them for prison. Moreover, it contends that interpersonal violence, transmitted from generation to generation and producing a vicious cycle, is a manifestation of institutionalized and systemic inequity. In the context of a hypermasculine culture, young Black men are both victims and participants in a dialectic of interpersonal-structural violence. Routinely precipitated by powerful state actors and agencies of criminal justice, public policy and assorted ‘moral entrepreneurs’, young Black men have their masculinity weaponized and prisonized by the state’s low-intensity declaration of war against them, and, among others, the poor, LGBTQ, immigrants, and First Nations and other people of colour. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 3 3 113 131 |
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Informed by Galtung (1969), Anderson (2012) and Wacquant (2001), this paper argues that a lifetime of spiralling and everyday state structural violence and overtly racist criminal profiling principally targeted at young Black men living in the Toronto Community Housing Corporation prepares them for prison. Moreover, it contends that interpersonal violence, transmitted from generation to generation and producing a vicious cycle, is a manifestation of institutionalized and systemic inequity. In the context of a hypermasculine culture, young Black men are both victims and participants in a dialectic of interpersonal-structural violence. Routinely precipitated by powerful state actors and agencies of criminal justice, public policy and assorted ‘moral entrepreneurs’, young Black men have their masculinity weaponized and prisonized by the state’s low-intensity declaration of war against them, and, among others, the poor, LGBTQ, immigrants, and First Nations and other people of colour. |
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