SOC205H5 Lecture 8: Critical Race Theory and Aboriginal Challenges to Law
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Critical race theory and aboriginal challenges to law. Mainstream criminologists focus on race a biological fact in the sense that people of different origins or ancestries have different risk factors for developing different diseases. The social construct of race refers to how we define and identify race changes over time and across place. It also looks at the interactions based around the different connotations that race carries along with it. Theories of crime in relation to race as a biological fact relied on perceptions tat race determined criminal propensities because of inferiority of social position or low socio-economic status. Race as a binary and no control for other races or ethnicities. Control for iq; iq is a result of socio-economic factors correlated with other factors correlated with crime. Don"t report 2- variance of data is unavailable which would determine how well model fits data. Race a social construct is more recent development in sociology.
