CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Racial Profiling, Assault, Penology
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This has very serious consequences for confidence in the criminal justice system on the part of racial minorities and by extension, the broader political economic system which it upholds. The figures would seem to indicate that the worst forms of prejudice are expressed here. Film on racial profiling/police carding/street checks https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=u627bsqa5bm. Racial profiling is a reflection of the emergence of the risk society/new penology . Us police are more likely to make arrests in cases involving white victims than minority victims: the racial threat hypothesis. Canadian data confirm that police officers are more likely to attach negative. Moral assessments (subjective personality descriptions) to the case files/show-cause documents of black persons. The effect of race is statistically weaker at the sentencing stage than at earlier stages of the justice process. There appears to be evidence of racial bias in the application of prison discipline.
