{"id":36,"date":"2019-02-20T07:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2019-04-27T20:55:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T00:55:49","slug":"log-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/data-collection-logs\/log-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Log 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date. <\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What data did you collect?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What is your initial impression of the data? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How have the data you have collected this week changed\/progressed your thinking about your research project? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What challenges did you encounter while collecting the data? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What are your next steps?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week I worked on an outline for my paper, and continued reading sources. Making the outline was very helpful to me because it allowed me to lay out what I want to focus my research on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Final Paper \u2013 Outline<\/p>\n<p>Intro: why is incarceration a topic worthy of study? (2 page)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduce with story\u2026<\/li>\n<li>#s (&amp; comparison to other countries)<\/li>\n<li>Racism\u2026 but neoliberalism is also a player (even if it was only the white prison population #\u2019s would still be very high\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>Increase in mass incarceration aligns with the rise in neoliberal politics (1980s)<\/li>\n<li>This paper will examine \u2026\n<ul>\n<li>Part 1 road map<\/li>\n<li>Part 2 road map<\/li>\n<li>Part 3 road map<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part 1. How neoliberal policies created the socio-economic conditions that give rise to mass incarceration (8 pages)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neoliberal rationality &#8211;&gt; privatization of public goods<\/li>\n<li>Cutbacks in welfare services \u2013 increasing economic gap<\/li>\n<li>Harsh policing and criminalization (war on drugs)<\/li>\n<li>Neoliberalism views the individual as responsible for their conditions so incarceration is seen as justified<\/li>\n<li>History of profit from prisons (convict lease system)<\/li>\n<li>The privatization of prisons and the prison industrial complex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part 2. How neoliberal incentives reinforce mass incarceration (6 pages)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prison industrial complex as a market for production<\/li>\n<li>Giant corporations benefit from mass incarceration &amp; encourage policies that lead to it<\/li>\n<li>Private interest groups (prison guard unions, law enforcement, etc.) have interest in the growth of the incarceral state<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part 3. The paradox (4 pages)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mass incarceration is actually incredibly expensive and it does not save money<\/li>\n<li>Efforts on criminal justice reform argue that prison reform is necessary because it is so expensive (which reinforces neoliberal ideals)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conclusion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the purpose of punishment? It does not dissuade \u201ccrime\u201d\u2026 it is about money.<\/li>\n<li>Rhetoric espoused by those in power seeing crimes as individual problems &amp; about $ in the system reinforce the focus on neoliberalism. not only does neoliberalism &#8211;&gt; mass incarceration, but mass incarceration &#8211;&gt; neoliberalism. It is a reinforcing cycle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you think this arrangement makes sense? I did also do more research this week. I read particularly about how mass incarceration is very costly for the state and how arguments for prison reform use a neoliberal argument to argue that levels of imprisonment should be reduced.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/books-ideas\/marie-gottschalk-neoliberal-prison-reform-caught<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Comments:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This outline looks good, Natalie. One quick question: in which part are you planning to talk about the rationality behind the privatization of prison? ( the point that you raised last week) 1st or 2nd? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is indeed interesting that the arguments for prison reform is using cost-benefit analysis to justify themselves (instead of, for instance, &#8220;social justice&#8221;). Like, does this mean that it if was not expensive, it would be ok? I think this shows the pervasiveness and adaptability of \u00a0neoliberal ideology. It can shape opposite views.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between weeks 8 and 12, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date. What data did you collect? What is your initial impression of the data? How have the data you have collected this week changed\/progressed your thinking about your research project? What challenges did you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/data-collection-logs\/log-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Log 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}