SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hamilton Police Service, Offender Profiling, Threat Assessment

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

Document Summary

Racial profiling: stop, question and search can evidence. Random sample of 1200 torontonians by wortley (1994) Seeking if there was disproportionate contact with different races over a certain period: 44% of black males had been stopped and questioned once in the past two years. 30% had been stopped more than once: 12% of white males and 7% asian males reported multiple stops, class and demographic data held constant. Similar results in wortley and owusu-bempah (2011: blacks 3x more likely to be stopped multiple times, 3x more likely to be searched compared to whites. Research suggests police profile: race is significant predictor after controlling for: Racism in dominant culture? (cid:862)poli(cid:272)e i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iety(cid:863: police are part of a broader social environment, embedded in a racist society/culture. Police are inherently suspicious: part of their constant exposure to danger (skolnick, 1966) (cid:862) y(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272) assaila(cid:374)ts(cid:863) (cid:894) kol(cid:374)i(cid:272)k, (cid:1005)9(cid:1010)(cid:1010)(cid:895) Mental construct of what a typical offender looks like.