SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Restorative Justice, Official Statistics, Homicide

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Alexander Shvarts

Document Summary

Race has been found to be a good predictor of criminality, at least in the united. States, but our information on the relationship between race and crime in canada is very limited. Racial minorities account for 11% of those incarcerated in canada. Blacks make up only 2% of the population, but they represent 6% of the federally incarcerated. Foreign-born - highly under-represented among those incarcerated for violent crimes idea that immigrants commit more crime; however, no concrete evidence. According to official statistics african americans do commit more crime and dominate jail. Looking back, african americans did not dominate crime rates. There was no group that was more discriminated against than the irish. Used to be looked at as the niger"s of. Europe"s because they had darker skin than the british. African american"s only began to dominate crime rates in the late 70"s and early.