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Admin stuff Systems vs. individuals Mechanisms & outcomes Policing & safety Bias crime
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Exam #2 short answers graded by Monday Anti-trans bathroom bill testimony TOMORROW (11/19) at 10am, Wisconsin Capitol Extra credit: 1/2 percentage point on final grade Write-up analysis of proposed law in connection with class materials (500 words) & email to instructor by noon Monday (11/23) Email instructor photo of self waiting to testify (indicate permission to publish on course FB ONLY IF you want to)
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Extra credit option #2 (also 1/2 percentage point on final grade): Write 500-word comparison of Paris Is Burning and The Salt Mines (link to be posted on Learn@UW) Due via email to TA no later than 12pm, Monday, 12/14 You can do both!
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HIV/AIDS lack of response Lack of adequate healthcare in general Treatment of sex workers Also: circumstances leading to survival sex work Treatment of homeless 20-40% of homeless youth LGBTQ+ State violence
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Healthcare, education, law enforcement all large social institutions Individual members may have little power over what the institution does or how Good people can be part of a system that creates bad outcomes Often few systemic checks on bad actors within institutions
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What are some things that you have had to convince people really do happen? Women: Things men don’t realize happen? Disabled people/PWD: Things abled people don’t realize happen? Fat people: Things thin people don’t realize happen?
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What are outcomes for different groups? Finding: LGBTQ+ youth about 6% of population; 15% of juvenile detention population (Burdge et al. 2014): Why? Finding: Black people 13% of US population; 40% of incarcerated population (2010 Census): Why?
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Subject of recent news coverage in Oakland Rampant in my neighborhood in southwest Madison White citizens calling police on POC (esp Black kids) are part of the problem
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Deaths in custody EX: Sandra Bland (Black woman), Rexdale Henry (Native man) Violence in prison system Privatization EX: Food, healthcare See handout on trans incarceration
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Victims of violence often blamed or criminalized EX: Cierra Finkley (Madison) EX: Marissa Alexander (Florida) EX: Trayvon Martin (Florida) EX: Gwen Araujo (Colorado) Note: At least 15 of 21 known murdered trans women in 2015 were TWOC
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perpetrator of the crime intentionally selects the victim because of his or her membership in a certain group “A hate crime or bias motivated crime occurs when the perpetrator of the crime intentionally selects the victim because of his or her membership in a certain group” (Williams Institute 2007) motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias “…a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation” (fbi.gov)
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11.1% by ethnicity 48.5% by race 66.4% anti-Black bias 21.4% anti-White bias 1.4% by disability 0.3% by gender First year collected 0.5% by gender identity First year collected 19.2% by sexual orientation 60.6% classified as anti-gay (male)
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Push to criminalize “conversion therapy” of minors following Leelah Alcorn’s suicide; make it easier to remove children from homes Intention seems clear, but what are likely consequences? For whom? How can marginalized people be protected from violence?
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