The second part of episode 2 focuses on historic and modern cases. It is not an easy episode, featuring discussion of abuse and human rights violations, including racism and rape. Please proceed with care.
Note : while many of these topics remain sadly relevant today, we are focusing on historic aspects here and how they influence perceptions of crime then, and how that can feature today, but we do not specifically delve into topics of eg racism today, and so the discussion is predominantly on and around the past. This does not mean that we do not recognise the importance of understanding the impact of these issues today… only that we are discussing a very specific issue here, an issue without which today’s problems likely would not exist. Understanding the past can help us work for a better present, as can widely spread allyship.
Show Notes
On the era :
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-happened-during-victorian-era
On race :
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/race-genetics-science-africa
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/race-and-racial-identity
Williams, M. 2019. “Celtic” Crosses and the Myth of Whiteness. In: Albin, A., Erler, M., O’Donnell, T., Paul, N. and Rowe, N. ed. Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past. New York, USA: Fordham University Press, pp. 220-232. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823285594-022
https://www.governing.com/context/how-states-used-land-laws-to-exclude-and-displace-asian-americans
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1206&context=qc_pubs
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/3/2/21 – Interraciality in Early Twentieth Century Britain
https://andscape.com/features/white-immigrants-werent-always-considered-white-and-acceptable/
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-material/the-religious-roots-of-the-abolition-movement/
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/amabrel.htm
https://americainclass.org/the-religious-roots-of-abolition/
On the Scotsboro case :
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/who-were-scottsboro-nine-180977193/
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys
https://www.famous-trials.com/scottsboroboys
*differing dates are given on different sites as to which day exactly the fight occurred upon; this may be down to writing error or clerical error during the initial proceedings
On rape
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/22/human-rights-watch-submission-un-special-rapporteur-violence-against-women
https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2019/08/un-fact-finding-mission-myanmar-calls-justice-victims-sexual-and-gender
https://www.cigionline.org/articles/honor-gang-rape/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/asa110132014en.pdf
https://hbv-awareness.com/rape-victim-faces-honour-killing/
https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a6294/teen-sex-offender/
https://opiniojuris.org/2022/11/02/symposium-on-the-eccc-forced-marriage-in-the-eccc/
On allyship
– In the US
https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-confronting-the-past/id1168154281?i=1000523124579
– Elsewhere
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46618482
On Indian lynchings/misinformation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44678674
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44856910
https://www.unodc.org/documents/southasia//reports/Human_Trafficking-10-05-13.pdf
On Malawi vampire crisis
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41692944
On witchcraft accusations
https://www.unicef.org/liberia/stories/unicef-and-partners-bring-hope-children-accused-witchcraft-liberia
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/children-accused-witchcraft-find-solace-east-congo-shelter-2023-02-08/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50742414
On group behavioural patterns in connection with mass hysteria (relevant to understand why we share belief)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3588562/
On trauma, conflict and reconciliation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52938283
On Nutrition and Growth
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8156872/
On misinformation and multiculturalism
https://www.cigionline.org/articles/disinformation-is-undermining-democracy-in-west-africa/
On Physiognomy
https://www.wired.com/2014/11/fantastically-wrong-criminal-anthropology/
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/2021/07/23/italys-dr-mengele-a-museum-dedicated-to-lombrosos-controversial-racist-theories/
https://slate.com/technology/2009/10/can-you-tell-if-a-man-is-dangerous-just-by-looking-at-his-face.html
“Her disposition was naturally that which physiognomists consider as proper to fair complexions – mild, timid, and gentle” – Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819) p. 240 in Penguin Popular Classics 1994
Misc.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/accuser-israel-de-genocide-a-gaza-une-mascarade-kafkaienne-20240118
https://online.simmons.edu/blog/prisoner-reentry/