CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Beyond Race Magazine, Racial Profiling, Iceberg
11 Dec 2014
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Social inequality and the administration of criminal justice: It has led to denials of basic civil and political rights to. It excluded adults from jobs and children from schools, limited opportunities to acquire property, and barred people from hotels, bars, theatres and other recreational facilities. In these ways, racism has restricted the life-chances of some canadians while it benefited others (commission on systemic racism in the ontario criminal justice system, 1995, p. 21): what is reflected in the cjs, what it operates. Manifestations of racism in the justice system: racially biased attitudes and practices of judges, jurors, lawyers and other court officials, decisions, biased jury-selection procedures, why is it that aboriginal people are overrepresented. Jurors roles are called by voting list; in which aboriginals don"t have. Systemic influence on certain population: sentencing disparities (differences, ab. = overrepresented in prison, harsher consequences and sentences similar to young black men. Commission on systemic racism in the ontario cjs (1995)
