WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Special Investigations Unit, Devaluation, Subculture
6 Dec 2012
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Racial bias in the canadian criminal justice system. Racial profiling (police stop and search activities). Arrest decisions: diversion of white youths over minority groups. Pre-trial decision-making: are minority more likely to get denial bail. Conviction rates and sentencing: minorities charged with violent crime receive less serious sentences than the white counterparts (sentenced more leniently, as long as you kill minority victims, lighter sentences will occur, because the community devalues minorities. Criminal deportation: landed immigrant without citizenship, you can be deported back to your country of origin (usually those that lived in canada since they were a kid) Without proper race crime stats it is hard to explore the correctional treatment, prison discipline and parole decisions. How can we explain racial differences in police use of force. Perceptions of racial bias is a problem if the majority of individuals believes that the police, courts and prison sentencing is based on racial bias.
