SOC232H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gartner, Racial Profiling, White-Collar Crime
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Thinking about justice system as the law- thinking about the actor that make the law and form society. Small population: 1967 immigration reform- there was a restriction for black immigrates in canada. Caribbean"s were allowed in and then continental africa: heterogeneous population, census data indicated. Higher rate of personal income and unemployement. More likely to come from a lone parent families. And less education than the other population. Canada being tolerant but we still have the aboriginal discrimination. Slavery- 6 of the 16 legistlators in canada owned slaves. Early economy was built on slave economy. The white elites placed blacks in the profound social advantage. Restrictions on property ownership: school segretaion till 1964, entry into the country. Bias in education: streaming- academic and applied- black students are pushed towards applied (eg- portuges kids pushed in to machanics and constructions, housing.
