SOC322H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reform War, Restorative Justice, Division Of Property
Document Summary
Looking to the future: criminal justice / social justice: recap from film. Theme: consider how cjs responds to inequalities, and how cjs in itself reproduces different forms of inequality. Blacks in us similar to aboriginals in canada. Indian act, reservation system, residential schooling for aboriginals. Police have perception that certain groups are associated with crime. Simply not supporting the police may create this. War on drugs and war on crime - crack v cocaine (framing something as a war automatically creates two different sides) Political parties / individuals, cjs institutions/people, private corporations benefitted from war on drugs. Some groups are targeted by cjs, and so these groups become criminal in a real way. We racialize crime through arrests etc we disadvantage these groups by taking their political social power away from them. Legislative reform: laws have played a key role in different experiences across groups in canada.
