WDW101Y1 Lecture : Policing Nov 3rd Lecture Notes

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9 Jan 2011

School

UTSG

Department

Woodsworth College Courses

Course

WDW101Y1

Professor

John Vervaeke

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Document Summary

After 9/11, the racial profiling debate focused on arabs and. This is because the decision maker : the person can find some factor that can t rigger suspicision. Always some way so justify it. (e. g. it"s not just race: u. s. drug enforcement agency: criteria: acting too nervous, acting alone, or travelling with a companion, (always going to get caught then?) Could be for many purposes could be for preventing violence, and crime. If we wanted to understand racial profiling more simply-it entails the use of race as a proxy for r isk: police profile all the time-and nothing wrong with them. It rises in areas authority a great deal of discretion. this significant amount of discretion that is rewarded to police officers. Why is there so much opposition: why would we expect the police not live up to it. I t undermines the whole policing structure: police force relies on every single segment of society.

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Classifying people based on skin color is

a old tradition that is no longer practiced

the only method available to us to classify humans

a scientific practice that avoids cultural influences

at best arbitrary and at worst the cause of discrimination

Dark skin is found in populations near the equator. Why?

it protects from frostbite

it promotes vitamin A synthesis

it helps prevent rickets

it protects from overexposure to ultraviolet radiation

Forensic anthropologists must deal with the race concept because they are asked by law enforcement agencies to identify an individualâs race from skeletal remains.

False

True

Intelligence

can be accurately measured by IQ tests

is a Mendelian trait

is the result of both genetic and environmental factors

is determined solely by genetic factors

is almost impossible to measure accurately

varies between groups only

and intelligence are the same thing

is useful for making racial distinctions