SOC 1500 Lecture 13: soc1500-lec13
15 Feb 2017
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Thursday, october 27, 2016 soc1500- lec13 social exclusion and crime: minority groups. Police intelligence gathering policy that involves stopping, questioning, and documenting individuals. Police perspective: proactive community engaged crime prevention. Critics perspective: primarily targets black citizens, racial pro ling. Wortley and owusu-bempah (2011: surveyed 1,522 metro toronto residents who identi ed as black (n=513), chinese (n=513), chinese (n=505) Blacks are 3 times more likely to experience multiple police stops and are 3 times more likely to be searched during these stops: they are also more likely to interpret these stops as unfair. Blacks are 6 times more likely to have friends or family members who were racially pro led. Criminal code of canada: deadly force is justi ed if an of cer believes on reasonable grounds that such force is necessary for the preservation of his/her life or the lives of others in the encounter. Thursday, october 27, 2016: less likely to be college educated, lower rank (eg.
