Sociology 2253A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Victims Family, Offender Profiling, Racial Profiling
6 Oct 2016
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For the exam you only need to read 207-211 of chapter 9. Discrimination: making favour in or against a person or things that belongs rather than on individual merit. Aboriginals who are overrepresented in prisons - highest population within federal institution - result of discrimination. Because they are entrusted with power it"s important that they are held accountable. Police stopping people and gathering personal data whether they are a suspect or not, information is entered into a database and it"s there for good. Even if you"re not involved in any crime, you become one simply by where you are. 1. 8 million cards 2008-2012 and a disproportionate amount were for young black males. Caused public uproar and is violation the charter rights of individuals. 2017 - race is prohibited from be any part of a police officer"s reason. They have to tell people you have a right not to talk with them and you can"t just arrest them willy nilly.
