CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Rodney King, Racialization, Infant Mortality

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

Document Summary

Cultural representations of race and crime: race as a social and political construction. Develop procedures that are overly discriminatory: traditional versus symbolic and systematic racism. Symbolic- negative understanding of particular groups expressed through language. : missing women inquiry in b. c= 19 women who were murdered by pickton; aboriginal sex trade workers in. Vancouver, the police exercised what was referred to a systemic biased. Didn"t take it seriously, or investigate instances of violence of abuse: cultural representations of crime and criminality informed by race. Explicit and implicit line drawn between violence and abuse. 2 processes: racialization of crime and the criminalization of race (being connected) Racialization of crime symbolic racism comes into play. Process through which crime is constructed and defined in an explicit racial terms. (e. g. Hurricane katrina -2005; one aspect: the idea of spikes in crime- people went to the super dome and the convention centre to seek support/shelter.