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The Other White Meat: Governing through Crime, Race, and Gender

By Jonathan Simor

The intricacy with which the politics of crime and the politics of race are intertwined in the US is distinctive but not unique. The latest example comes from the country which is arguably the world's second most obsessive "culture of control" and from one the architects of New Labour's long experiment in governing through crime. Former Home Secretary (under Blair) and now veteran Labour stateman Jack Straw (I can never hear his name without thinking of the Grateful Dead song) speaking on BBC Newsnight about the conviction of two men of Pakistani ethnic background of raping and exploiting several young women who were of white (Anglo-Saxon?) background. (Read the Guardian story by David Batty)"Pakistanis, let's be clear, are not the only people who commit sexual offences, and overwhelmingly the sex offenders' wings of prisons are full of white sex offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on January 08, 2011 (boomark / email).