SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hamilton Police Service, Offender Profiling, Racial Profiling

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

Document Summary

Racial profiling: stop, question and search- us evidence. In canada, police aren"t required to collect data on race. Resistance is because it might reveal enforcement patterns. Random sample of 1200 torontonians by wortley. 44% of black male respondents had been stopped and questioned once in the past two years, 30% had been stopped more than once. Wortley and tanner"s (2002) survey of 3400 toronto high-school kids. 50% of black students had been stopped and questioned on two or more occasions in two years. 23% of whites, 11% asians, 8% south asians. Even when controlling for self-disclosed criminal activity. Similar results in wortley and owusu (3x blacks more likely than whites to get stopped) Symbolic assailant schemas are learned through personal experience. Academic research appears to suggest police racially profile. Satzewich and shaffir (2009)-hamilton police dept deny racial profiling. Profile that goes beyond race (behaviour, time of day, appearance, location ect)