This chapter examines the structural relations that lead to People of Colour being disproportionately affected by Police-Caused Deaths in England and Wales. It surveys injustices past and present in considering the role of colonialism and imperialism in perpetuating this disproportionality. The chapter uses the concepts of structural violence and necropolitics as ways of conceptualising the ongoing victimisation and oppression of People of Colour by the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It considers the discourse around these deaths, arguing that narratives constructed about the Police-Caused Deaths of People of Colour reflect their relative value to the society in which they lived. That whilst such deaths are often constructed as individual ‘tragedies’ they in fact result from systemic and structural relations that reflect the inevitability of People of Colour dying in disproportionate numbers. As a result, the chapter argues that such deaths are normal because they reflect everyday injustices perpetuated by a system fundamentally grounded in structurally racist practices.

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‘One Tragedy After Another: Structural Violence, Necropolitics, People of Colour and Police Caused Deaths.’

  • David Baker

摘要

This chapter examines the structural relations that lead to People of Colour being disproportionately affected by Police-Caused Deaths in England and Wales. It surveys injustices past and present in considering the role of colonialism and imperialism in perpetuating this disproportionality. The chapter uses the concepts of structural violence and necropolitics as ways of conceptualising the ongoing victimisation and oppression of People of Colour by the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It considers the discourse around these deaths, arguing that narratives constructed about the Police-Caused Deaths of People of Colour reflect their relative value to the society in which they lived. That whilst such deaths are often constructed as individual ‘tragedies’ they in fact result from systemic and structural relations that reflect the inevitability of People of Colour dying in disproportionate numbers. As a result, the chapter argues that such deaths are normal because they reflect everyday injustices perpetuated by a system fundamentally grounded in structurally racist practices.