CRM 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Robert Pickton, Racial Profiling, Unintended Consequences
11 Dec 2014
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Pickton"s farm: the investigation, the decision, the missing women (oppal) inquiry - summary of volumes one and two. The facts and the social, political and legal context: large numbers of women reported missing from the downtown east side (des) in. Racial profiling; young black men, women of des: under-policing: police don"t put enough effort in making sure that people are getting policed at all or even the fact that they are not getting the right kind of policing. The news media perpetuate a hierarchy of female victims, meaning that not all women who have experienced violence are treated equally traditionally, it has been middle- class white women who have been constructed as innocent and good (gilchrist, 2010, p. 375: how we view these women. Within this ideology poor and/or racialized women are pre-packaged as bad women, regardless of their actual behaviour (gilchrist, 2010, p. 376: women who went missing on pickton"s farm were not all aboriginal.
