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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law 1993 Crime, Race and Reproduction Dorothy E. Roberts University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the African American Studies Commons, Bioethics and Medical Ethics Commons, Biological Engineering Commons, Criminology Commons, Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons, Genetics Commons, Health Policy Commons, Human Rights Law Commons, Law and Race Commons, Population Biology Commons, Public Policy Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, and the Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons Repository Citation Roberts, Dorothy E., "Crime, Race and Reproduction" (1993). Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law. 1383. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1383 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law by an authorized administrator of Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CRIIV1JE, RACE, AND iR:EPRODlJCTION DOROTHY E. ROBERTS* L iNTRODUCTWr"J ..................................... 1945 .1\.iYI�E :ft A (CP... , o , ••• , • , " •• , .• , ••••• , •••••� ••••••••••••• , 19t:.�6 1947 195!.:. HI. 1961 A. Eugenic Sterilization Laws ... ....... ........... 1961 B. The Reemergence of Biological Solutions to ·C?ime . .. .. .. 1965 IV. THE TERRIBLE INTERSECTION: CRIME, RACE, AND REPRODUCTION . 1969 A. The Control of Black Reproduction ... ... .... 1970 B. Linking Crime, Race, and Reproduction ..... ... 1972 C. A Constitutional Critique . .... ... ... ... 1974 V. CONCLUSION: THE l"JATURE OF OPPRESSION . ...... 1977 INTRODUCTION I. This Article addresses the convergence of two tools of oppression-the racial construction of crime and of the use reproduction as an instrument of punishment. Not only is race used to identify criminals, it is embedded in the very foundation of our criminal law. Race helps to determine who the criminals are, what conduct constitutes a crime, and which crimes society treats most seriously. Today, the states have returned to consid­ ering reproduction as a solution to crime; meanwhile, the federal governmeni: is exploring genetic criminality. Sugges­ a cause for tions for applying reproductive techniques to punish crime :have gained alarming acceptance. 1 his Article discusses each of these aspects of American criminal justice; but the principle focus is the significance of the convergence of the two. The racial ideol-­ ogy of crime increasingly enlists biology to justify the continued '" Associate Professor, Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. B.A., 1977, Yale Coliege; J.D . 1980, Harvard Law School. Parts of this Article were presented at the 1993 James A. Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School and the Law and Society 1993 Annual Meeting. I am grateful to participants for their comments. Frederick A. Morton, Jr., Adrienne Scerbak, and Jillan Stoddard provided v<1.luaole re�earch assistance. 1945 TULANE LA[,-;V RE�7ErV [VoL 67 subordination of blacks. !-Jly purpose is to explore the particular �� n r .-p - n ... 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It is not surpris­ Americans view ing that many black the police with fear, anger, and distrust. 3 The use of criminal justice as a tactic of racial domination is also manifested in the tremendous proportion of black males under correctional supervision. Two recent studies conducted by the National Center on Institutions and Alterna­ tives (NCIA) reveal the enormity of this control. According to the NCIA, on any given day in 1991 in Vlashington, D.C., forty­ two percent of young black males were in jail, on probation or parole, awaiting trial, or being sought on warrants for their arrest.4 The study suggests that seventy-five percent of black MICHEL FoUCAULT, 1. The term "t<::chnology of power" is Michel Foucault's. See DISCIPLiNE AND PUNISH: THE BIRTH OF THE PRISON 23 (Alan Sheridan trans., 1977). Foucault's study of the genealogy of the modern penal system views punishment as a "political tactic." See id. 2. Susan Burrell describes Ihe Los Angeles Police Department's "war model" approach to gangs: "[Former] Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates has compared his officers to a military force, and the gangs to a hostile defending force. 'It's like having the C p [w]e've got Marine or s invade an area that is still having little p0ckets of resistance . .. Evidence: Criminal Defense, to wipe them out.'" Susan L Bmrell, Gang Issues for 30 SANTA CLARA L REV. 739, 741-42 (i990) (quoting Chief Gates). See and Preliminary 3. Tracey Maciin, "Black Blue EncountPrs"-Some Thoughts About Fourth Amendment Seizures: Should Race fvfatter?, 26 VAL U. L. REV. 243, 243-45 (199i). Maclin criticizes the Supreme Cou.rt's decisions in California v. Hodari D., 111 S. Ct. 1547 (1991), and Florida v. Bostick, 111 S. Ct. 2332 (1991), for failing to consider race in determining vvhether an jndividua1 confronted by the police had been seized �vithin the rTleaning of the Fourth i'ui1endn1ent. Iviac:lin, supra, at 243, 250. P.... s fYiaclin notes: ��The Court constructs Fourth Amendment priEciples assuming th3t there is an average, hypo­ theticai person who interacts \vith the police officen;. This notion .. ignores the real "Norld that police officers and black men live in." Id. at 2d,8. On the Cou rt's general failure to Racisrn consider racisn1 in crirninal t::::ses, sec Sheri Lynn Johnson, Unconscious and the Criminal Law, 73 CORNELL L. REV. \016 (1938). 4. JERO!YiE (}. ?i'1!LI..ER, }{OBBLING A. GENERATION: Y DUNG AFRIC.t-..N 1\..P.rlERlCAN I\dALES IN )).C.'s CR1l\1iNAL JUSTICE 5YSTElv1 1 (1992). �Jationwide, alrnost one in four 1947 arrested and jailed men m the city win be at least once before ... ....... .... ', 5 . - n l' 'n1't1 cr � ('"ope - · \fP�· A, . u��· -�· �+ll. <�-� +1.1!t-.. .1 �,... t•( n .t·,_, ,yr-uht:"' ,,,:,,l"::b,>.,-· j - •- ! .< � -'•t- 'w<�'i}7 .d;. P!!Jl<:·�J4 +1l. d'-r..H v<�···· ·>:.,� ]. e-.x�· l '-�·';:> ��r, ' · ' 1 ' � .. ;(" 1'v1a- r ry 1 and,• d.·1sc.oses i an even mgner pcrcentz�gt'---vver na1!-01 .,. r.-·: ., "'"'.J.. h .. � <.. 1 ,...,.1 .. 1 • .. \.. 0 c,.�.l ""'�o-t_· l · ri., ..., . ,.1h ?'";r"'\� 6 Ll9..�..,t, mr:-.s. _ a l\;� s unri:..rl�-�L "' UDL P """v J.�J.1 � u .;... L-l �iJ.A i1.dl Jl1:3l1Ce �}T0te1n. The intin1idatio11; supervision, arl�J ilrr1priso:n.IJJ.er.:t o:f �J1c�cks in /�rr.�erica thro1.J.gl1 lavv e�nforcern�;�-:�t is ()Tlf: ,of t�he rrl:::Jst di:rf:c�t rn?.:?�T:S of raci.al sut\ord.ination. ,-l'l�e .crirr1inal jt1stice syst.err!�s C-(Jr;_trcd cJf bic�ci�s is sttppc,1-tt:{l ......._ . ....., r ..... - ... _ · -,�. -· �i- · � ';l ---:1"""'0+}·.=:.�.... L ::l,pc-· 1 . ...... l "!.n; �, � ... \1D �\1..1-·...i( 1� .1 li.V 1 �1 as l�.o.Jl-�v� . �ll::f)::�·��� c-t.,\!..J.- 1-.-r:l· :�.:�L.:. :L llS J .\.0..\J�--:. s .tu·(· J t� .)�1n�c;,_ o y "� ...... :=-. _ _ � -.r """-=-"t"'"'!""V'11...., £' ,....,..-.c t�nt.. cons t t� .,..;�"'""',. ;'f"""' c>�=-:. .u1��:.:.·� t-f: c:>Y"',.., ,.,t e.n hr.t rue e� ,,,_ dl L'"' u1:s 01 1 ,;;n•• • air�d race ;.,...,u.-, ..... ""' ,.. ..... .... � · . ..-..- ·· .j • + £ • - e po1n ce, ...., ,..,..., ........ t.. � t� ; - -� ._ e u:r?c ;; OJ. �;TI1:0e. ,...Jl.Ch oc,,up.<:'. PJ\1 01.:: bl _,ac."- C O H11A tl. ; n,�ncs ano imprisonment of wholesale black citizens does not seem like oppression to the dominant society b·ecause it believes that these people are dangerous. It is the racial ideology of crime that sus­ tains continued white domination of blacks in the guise of crime control. The following seciions discuss hmv race is used both to . 1 uent1'fy cnmma_s. 1 an d· d .. • -'1 . to e fine cnme . Race and the Identification of A. Criminals VI/hen a seventy-seven-year-old was attacked white wornan in Oneonta, New York on September 4, 1992, the only clues that she gave police were that she believed . her attacker was a black " " ! . wx o . a st1 etto-style ' -C' . man h vne ld e.�d '1 -<<mH� anu.r'l w h ose arms and hands were cut when she fended hirn off.7 The police immedi­ ately created "the black list" from the roster of all black and Hispanic males registered at the State University of New York College at Oneonta. State and city police, along with cam.pus s'::curity, used "the biack list" to track down the black and His­ students-in dormitories, their jobs, panic at and on the street-­ to question them as to their whereabouts at the time of the and to examine attack their arms and hands. In the vmrds of Edvvard L 'VVhaley, an instructor at the college, "[a]ny black man walking down the street, they would grab his hands.
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    VOL 25 NO 2 SPRING 2013 The Frostburg State University Magazineprofile Distinctly Frostburg FSU Recognized for Its Exceptional Educational Experience ENGAGED STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES GREAT TEACHING VIBRANT COMMUNITY Honoring a Fallen Hero 11 | Title IX Broadens Horizons 20 | Leadership & Homecoming Weekend 24 ENGAGED STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES GREAT TEACHING VIBRANT COMMUNITY From the President n fall 2012, FSU was named a College of FSU’s vibrant community, something profile Distinction because of how we stand out in we support through lectures, performances, Vol. 25 No. 2 Spring 2013 four key areas: student engagement, the exhibitions and speakers, is also growing in Prole is published for alumni, parents, friends, quality of our teaching, the vibrancy of new directions. We are pleased to welcome faculty and sta of Frostburg State University. our college community and the success of Dr. Rosemary M. omas, our vice president our graduates. It is an honor that in many for University Advancement and executive President Iways arms the quality educational experience director of the FSU Foundation, whose vision will Dr. Jonathan C. Gibralter we have provided for years. But it is also an honor strengthen our marketing and branding initiatives Vice President for that inspires us as we think about who we want to and philanthropy. We are also pleased to have a University Advancement become in the years ahead. new director of Alumni Programs and Special Dr. Rosemary M. Thomas In this issue, we take a closer look at how we Events, Laura McCullough, whose role will be to Editor excel as a College of Distinction. When it comes ensure our alumni feel connected to the vibrant Liz Douglas Medcalf to student engagement, as you read through this community Frostburg provides and connected to issue, you’ll discover that our students are proud each other through new anity groups.