SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Petro-Canada, Peel Regional Police, Racial Profiling

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

Document Summary

Measuring the presence of disorder extremely difficult to do. Sso (sampson and raudenbush 1999) strapped video cameras and drove down streets. Brought those videos back to the lab and determined what parts of the city had graffiti, needles ect. Satellite images or google earth makes it difficult to distinguish if something was a crime, or not (i. e. people just hanging out, or was it a drug deal) Ideally, cleaning up the community would help people be proud of their community, helping deter offenders. Disorder/low level seen as: community neglect, government neglect. Ecological advantages required: offenders are looking for very specific things such as distracted pedestrians, escape routes, conventional economic activity, not just run-down communities. Racial profiling and constitutional rights aggressively search and seizure. Criminalizing marginalized populations (e. g. visible homeless) homeless get handed a ticket, can"t pay it, end up in jail. Bw results and the future of other initiatives (e. g. community policing) Main concept: what are the main mechanisms.