CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Symbolic Racism, Melting Pot, Squeegee

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Squeegee kids co production of crime and criminal law. Race and crime: cultural representation of race and crime, racialization of crime and the, criminalization of race, dilemmas of definition and measurement, explaining the race crime link, differential offending v racial discrimination. Cultural representation of race and crime: race as a social and political construction. Early 1800-1900 notice perceptions as race as only biological terms. Fundamental and biological differences through physical attributes like skin colour, eye shape, hair texture. We think of minority groups as non white, public perception. The scientific study of race was based off biological differences. Biological category of races with its physical aspects could explain someone in a minority being smart or strong or angry. Historically all non whites were subjected to discrimination, including europe, immigrants. Socially constructed in historical context but carried through to present day. It"s a (cid:449)a(cid:455) of e(cid:454)plai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g differe(cid:374)(cid:272)es i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) (cid:449)ith diff so(cid:272)ial groups.