SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Racial Profiling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

Designed to find out how much race influences the decisions police make when they pull someone over. Ohrc and the ottawa police believe that race-based data collection is an important tool to support bias-free policing services. Reasons for and against collecting race based data by criminal justice system. Awareness and training (what can we expect from police officers) There is a lot of neglecting the need of minority populations. Any action undertaken for reasons of safety, security or public protection that relies on stereotypes. Consists of the classification of people into groups by reference to their skin colour or physical features and the process of stereotyping that emerges as a result of this classification system. Stopping individuals and asking a series of intrusive questions when they have no intention of charging anyone.