{"id":38,"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=38"},"modified":"2019-05-09T01:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T05:39:43","slug":"log-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/data-collection-logs\/log-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Log 6"},"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 began writing my paper, and have completed the first 10 pages. That took a majority of my time and so I did not conduct extensive research. I did however looking more in depth into the criminalization of poverty, and learned about how specific policies target poor individuals. This criminalization of poverty is twofold; it represents both the entanglement of the welfare and criminal law enforcement systems, and an increase in surveillance and policies which specifically target low-income people. Because I was writing this section this past week, I learned more about the criminalization of poverty and added helpful sources to my paper. Specifically, a paper published in 2009 entitled &#8220;The Criminalization of Poverty&#8221;, written by\u00a0Kaaryn Gustafson has been particularly helpful to me. This piece is very credible, and is an in-depth analysis about policies that have changed to encourage the criminalization of poverty, specifically through the melding of welfare and law enforcement programs. By having strict mandates that individuals must pass to receive welfare, recipients of welfare are under intense government scrutiny.\u00a0 The heightened levels of policing surrounding people who are applying for, and on, welfare, combined with the decrease in welfare grants amounts, is leading to more people locked up for petty crimes, and unable to provide bail. This article was published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminalization (https:\/\/scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=7330&amp;context=jclc). I also looked into the &#8220;Broken window theory&#8221; as well as three strike laws, which signal a shift in government efforts to policing low level crimes. The theory here being that if there are &#8220;broken windows&#8221; in neighborhoods, people will not feel ownership over their community, and will be compelled to commit more crimes- so by convicting people of minor crimes, government officials think there will be a reduction in over-all crime rates. This seems to obviously not be how it works&#8230; so its pretty clear that government officials are just targeting low-income populations. I also looked more into Lo\u00efc Wacquant&#8217;s work. He ultimately argues that the targeting of low-income people in the criminalization of poverty is the neoliberal way to deal with social instability among economically marginalized populations. He also argues that neoliberalism does not shrink government, but instead shifts the government oversight and policing from the general population to low-income individuals. Loic\u00a0Wacquant is a sociologist and his work is very credible and helpful to my research in particular.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of writing I also found several other sources that included good data about the rise of incarceration, and changes welfare grants, etc. This data has been helpful in shaping my argument that the decrease in welfare along with the criminalization of poverty combine to create the conditions for mass incarceration.<\/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-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Log 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010b-spring-2019-nrudin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/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=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}