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2 results foundAuthor: Hutchinson, Darren Lenard Title: Who Locked Us Up?: Examining the Social Meaning of Black Punitiveness Summary: Mass incarceration has received extensive analysis in scholarly and political debates. Beginning in the 1970s, states and the federal government adopted tougher sentencing and police practices that responded to rising punitive sentiment among the general public. Many scholars have argued that U.S. criminal law and enforcement subordinate people of color by denying them political, social, and economic well-being. The harmful and disparate racial impact of U.S. crime policy mirrors historical patterns that emerged during slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman, Jr. demonstrates that many blacks supported aggressive anticrime policies that gave rise to mass incarceration. On the surface, this observation potentially complicates arguments that conceive of U.S. criminal law and enforcement as manifestations of white supremacist political power. Forman's failure to provide a comprehensive analysis of the racist dimensions of punitive sentiment makes his research subject to such an interpretation. A deeper analysis, however, reconciles Forman's research with anti-racist accounts of U.S. crime policy. In particular, social psychology literature on implicit bias, social dominance orientation, and right-wing authoritarianism provides a helpful context for situating black punitive sentiment within anti-subordination criminal law theory. These psychological concepts could link punitiveness among blacks with out-group favoritism and in-group stigma that derive from structural inequality and anti-black social stigma. The social psychology of punitive sentiment, resilience of white supremacy, and conservative political ideology will likely present substantial barriers to the merciful approach to criminality that Forman proposes. Details: Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida, Levin College of Law, 2017. 60p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 20, 2019 at: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/review/who-locked-us-up Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/Hutchinson_qd156n1o.pdf Shelf Number: 154257 Keywords: Anti-Crime PoliciesMass IncarcerationPunitive SentimentRace and CrimeSentencing PracticesWhite Supremacy |
Author: Counter Extremism Project Title: The Extreme Right on Facebook Summary: Neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and far-right groups and online businesses maintain a presence on Facebook. Facebook is the third most visited website on the Internet and is also the world's largest social media network, with over 2.2 billion regular users as of February 2018. According to the Pew Research Center, 68% of U.S. adults use Facebook, with 81% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 using the platform. Because of its popularity, Facebook has become an important tool for political or community organizations and commercial brands - including, unfortunately, for far-right extremists. Even though the company explicitly bans hate speech and hate groups in its Community Standards, Facebook appears to have a reactionary approach to removing neo-Nazi and white supremacist content from its platform. For example, Facebook deactivated a page belonging to the Traditionalist Workers Party, a neo-Nazi group, only after it was revealed that the group participated in the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally. The page was reported to the company prior to the event. In another instance, a Huffington Post investigation in summer 2018 found that four neo-Nazi and white supremacist clothing stores were able to operate on Facebook. The tech giant finally removed the pages once it was faced with negative press. Despite seeing astronomical revenues of approximately $40.7 billion in 2017, Facebook is failing to enforce its own Community Standards in a proactive manner. In September 2018, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) identified and monitored a small selection of 40 Facebook pages belonging to online stores that sell white supremacist clothing, music, or accessories, or white supremacist or neo-Nazi groups. Pages were located through searches for known white supremacist or neo-Nazi keywords. CEP researchers recorded information for each page such as the number of likes, date of creation, and examples of white supremacist or neo-Nazi content. After two months, CEP reported the pages - only 35 of the 40 remained online - to Facebook and found that only four pages were ultimately removed. Clearly, Facebook's process for reviewing and removing this content - which violates its own Community Standards - is inadequate. Details: New York: Countering Extremism Project, 2019. 11p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 10, 2019 at: https://www.counterextremism.com/sites/default/themes/bricktheme/pdfs/The_Extreme_Right_on_Facebook_report.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://www.counterextremism.com/the-extreme-right-on-facebook Shelf Number: 156342 Keywords: Facebook Far-Right Groups Neo-Nazi Social Media White Supremacy |