Contemporary Rep of Punishment
12-15 page essay will provide an analysis of contemporary representations of punishment in everyday life and/or popular
culture from western culture;
Must present an argument statement with support;
Can include institutional productions and regulations of punishment
and penalty, official governmental or non-governmental reports,
media and/or artistic or other cultural renditions related to
contemporary representations of punishment;
May focus on a particular theme or include diverse representations;
May use additional academic sources, but not required;
Any academic citation style may be used just be consistent.
Topic: Punishing the Poor
Required readings;
Chunn, Dorothy E., and Shelley A.M. Gavigan. 2014. “Welfare Fraud to Welfare as Fraud: The Criminalization of Poverty”. In Gillian Balfour and Elizabeth Comack (eds.). Criminalizing Women: Gender and (in)Justice in Neo-Liberal Times, Black Point, Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, pp. 197-214.
Pollack, Shoshana. 2010. “Labelling Clients ‘Risky’: Social Work and the Neo-liberal Welfare State.” British Journal of Social Work 40: 1263–1278.
