PSY371H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hair Clipper, Metal Detector, Criminal Record
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Doesn"t matter who you compare african americans they will have more time in jail on average. Violence white people spend more time in jail than african americans, higher rates of domestic violence charges more than african americans, more sensational. Overrepresentation aboriginal especially women, 30% of female population. Rate differs between provinces, large overrepresentation tends to be high aboriginals living there, racial profiling, over policing. Drugs and alcohol involved with their criminal activities. Much better aboriginal programs but not a lot of funding. Ways in which there is an overrepresentation of people in the jail, racial segregated policies. Each institution, has specific labour, use and exploit for as much time as you can until they are useless. Hyper ghetto class segregation and race segregation, black middle class moving away, left living in hyper ghetto, female run housing, high levels of poverty, many in jail are also uneducated and under marginalized.
