textbook readings 1,3-5, 8

Question 1

4 stages of colonization

Answer 1

1. invasion - acquire resources
2. colonial society is formed: cultural imposition, cultural disintegration, cultural re-creation.
3. governed by representatives of colonizer’s power
4. colonial society develops caste system based on race.

Question 2

psychological + social consequences to colonization

Answer 2

1. mentacide: destruction of group’s minds.

2. cultural limbo or double alienation. = self-hate, horizontal violence

Question 3

define racialization

Answer 3

categories of population are constructed, differentiated, inferiorized and excluded.

Question 4

3 factors that link drug/alcohol use + crime

Answer 4

1. support addiction
2. commit crime under influence
3. mere possession is a crime

Question 5

goldstein’s 3 causes of crime

Answer 5

1. psychopharmalogical
2. economic compulsive
3. systemic.