SOC371H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Black Kids, Visible Minority, Social Capital
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Both nations have high proportionality of minorities incarcerated. Inability to vote, no social welfare benefits/citizenship rights no stake in the game, not going to play! System in structured so that young black poor kids end up in jail racial profiling and carding. System structure to provide benefits and opportunities for visible minorities. Other one is open = pathway leads directly to jail again. Social death end up in jail = stay in jail. You lose social identity master status becomes sx con. Impact of african american men is to. System structured in a way to make in impossible for them to get out. Aa have longer sentences than any other group. Difference in length of incarceration becomes more interesting when you look at type of crime. Violence is the only crime where white people will spend more time in jail than men = domestic violence. Automatic arrest for domestic violence - also involved in assaults more other than aa.
