SOCI 4620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Racialization, Visible Minority, Racial Profiling
24 Apr 2021
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From broken windows theory to zero tolerance policing (post 1970s crime policy: neoliberalism + labour market changes = decline in good jobs, white flight to suburbs in. U. s. , high concentrated poverty and segregated neighbourhoods: rentrenchment of welfare state and investment in social programs + law and order policy. = criminalization of poverty, racialization of crime, policing and punishment: result: mass incarceration (in u. s. but increasingly in canada) It is racially disproportionate policing rather than racially disproportionate crime that has resulted in the enormous levels of black people behind bars in canada today. maynard 2017: 88. Racial profiling: black teens in montreal are 7 times more likely to be arrested by the police for smoking cannabis or selling drugs in public than white teens (maynard, 2017, p. 99) Spanning (1986-1987) and (1992-1993), prison admission in ontario for black persons for drug trafficking increased by 1164%, compared to 151% for white persons (maynard,
