SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Visible Minority, Tokenism, Essentialism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Parnaby

Document Summary

Pressure to recruit visible minorities and women. Police force should mirror the communities of which they work in: the greater to which they mirror one another (gender, ethnicity, race) the more likely we are to have good relations with those communities. In 2013, only 9% of police were visible minorities: however, approximately 20% of canadian population is visible minority. In 213, 20% of police were female: however, approximately 50% of canadian population is women, closing this gap is difficult because not enough women are applying to the police force. Basic training and broad-based criminal justice training. This has all been heavily criticized because people say we need consistent training from one province to the next: however, most cops will stay in the province they were trained in. Policing is modeled after the military: one of the first things instilled in the officers is respect for authority and hierarchy of command.