In this unit, I would like us to pause and think about the words we routinely use in criminology/criminal justice: offender, criminal, convict, felon, inmates, prisoner, ex-prisoner, juvenile delinquent, and on and on. What unites all these words? What do we communicate to people towards whom we use these words/labels?
To read:
- The Power of Labels: Exploring our use of humanizing language https://fortunesociety.org/wordsmatter/
- Cox, A. (2020). The language of incarceration. https://doi.org/10.1177/2632666320940859
