2/10 Crime and Punishment notes:

Writing notes:
establish thesis upfront in introduction
Set up outline topic sentences in reference to thesis
Take paper to writing center
Follow through with thesis
Memos:
Identify authors thesis
Develop your own thesis
Break paragraphs by themes
Use evidence from text for support
Good title needed
Be as concise as possible
Elements of style strunk and white
Nouns and verbs for description
Jump right in
Draw reader in be captivating
Avoid passive tense action done vs doing action
Write actively
Avoid the fact that dont write
Write with confidence
Make authoritative arguments
Dont write yourself into the text - no I or me
Avoid clichs
Get someone else to read your work
Read out loud to yourself

Bandit discussion
Robin hood ideal bandit/social bandit in Hobsbawms view
No institutional development, just individuals
Own self interests
Gain status but not for good of whole
Advance themselves by increasing their wealth
Adaptation more than resistance to regimes
Need conscience to know whats wrong to know what to fight against
Just seen as chaos and crime instead of resistance
Squash rebellion faster if crime instead of against government
Easier for government to dismiss as crime than going against government
Keep people from joining
Marginalization no way to join elites so turn to banditry
Bigger crimes out there why focus on the little crimes
Not meant to be resistance/act of desperation
Filtered biases translator, scribe with official records
Maybe even people testifying change stories to try to get lesser sentence
Limitations but can be fruitful official records
Pancho Villa:
Seen as hero in Mexico
Seen as criminal in US
Not very
ideological/political

Zapata:
Bandit in southern
Mexico
Strived to bring land
to peasants
Assassinated but
regarded as saint-like

Gavara Cuba
Africa Bolivia
Bolivians not
interested in his land
reform

Helpful to look at history through banditry/crime:

Gives good contexts shows what was
Testimonies problematic but
happening to push people into it
conditions scream at you
People do it purely because
Gather peripheral info gain broader
theyre poor
context
Pancho villa pushed to it by
Different types of bandits grey
supporters
areas

Complicate understandings of
past/peoples roles
Recognizing state/legal system as
power and states efforts to control,
maintain and govern

Ideas of resistance, struggle against

power, and hegemony

State intentionally defining peasant livelihoods, customs as crimes to further

marginalize peasants