SOC 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Offender Profiling, Experience 7, Institutional Racism
3 Mar 2017
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Lecture 4 racism and the law: racism has been tied to: people, institutions, and domination, racism involves: Ideologies and practices which control, exclude or exploit racialized people: racism and the law. Systemic racism: may be unconscious: racial profiling. Why do others feel the law is out of control: racial profiling. Uses race/ethnicity to identify a person as criminal: reasons for racial profiling. Demeanor of suspect: racial profiling is a form of systemic discrimination. Police, courts, media, and the public see it as trivial (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:895) but the poli(cid:272)e (cid:373)ust dis(cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)ate as (cid:862)(cid:272)ri(cid:373)e fighters(cid:863) But: some also use race as a factor: criminal profiling is legal; racial profiling is not legal. The charter and human rights codes forbid it. Police confuse criminal and racial profiling: responses of police: Sources: residential schools, social problems, distancing from western society: results, v. gladue case. Section 718. 2(e) of the ccc: restorative justice (rj) What does rj offer: benefits of rj.
