Jim Sidanius- Under Color of Authority- Part 2

Jim Sidanius's presentation from the 2008 Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) Conference.

"While instances of inter-communal violence and genocide are obvious and immensely tragic, what is not as readily appreciated is the widespread extent and ferocity of the intergroup violence that is channeled through legal and criminal justice systems. Given the fact that the legal and criminal justice systems are disproportionately controlled by members of dominant rather than subordinate social groups, social dominance theory argues that a substantial portion of the output of the criminal justice system can be seen as a form of intergroup violence, the function of which is to maintain the structural integrity of group-based social hierarchy."

For more speaker videos and to find out more about this year's conference, please visit the PLMS website.

PLMS
http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k13943&pageid=icb.page63708

The Situationist Blog
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/

Jim Sidanius's Faculty Page
http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/james_sidanius/index.html

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