SOC225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Homicide, Multiculturalism In Canada, Human Penis Size
2 May 2018
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April 9 (Monday)
Once charged and convicted, do minorities get harsher sentences?
● Complex! Inconclusive! Different Findings!
● Caada: because o our ba o race based stats, e ca’t ull ko this
○ No data
○ Aboriginals are a unique group under the law
○ Might receive slightly more lenient than non Aboriginals
■ Rooted in R.V Gladue
● Sets leal precedet that seteci juded hae to
consider the lived experience and circumstance of
Aboriial oeders
● COMMUNITY BASED SENTENCES
● America: depends on how you look at it
○ Victi’s race - not the offenders - matters most
○ If compared to a white offender, the race of the offender appears
not to matter - however this does not absolve the courts of racism
○ Most crime is INTRAracial
■ People tend to victimize people of their own race
● Minority Offender + White Victim = MOST severe sentence
○ When they involve homicide, they are by far the most likely to
prompt a death sentence
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Document Summary
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