White criminality is
increasingly defined and controlled via the medical model. This is made
possible by the white racial frame, which constructs ‘whiteness’ as normative
and white deviance as individual aberration or mental illness.
Conversely, the
white racial frame constructs Blackness as synonymous with criminality. Media
depictions of crime and criminals play a central role in furthering this
framing, which provides the underlying legitimation for disparities in social
control. The result is double standards of definition and control which
medicalize whiteness and criminalize Blackness. This differential framing of
whiteness and Blackness provides the foundation for the expansion of both the
medical and prison industrial complexes, which are characterized by real racial
differences despite comparable patterns of deviance across racial lines.
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By: Nancy A. Heitzega*
- a Sociology and Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity, St Catherine University, St. Paul, MN, USA
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