CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Invisibility, Racialization

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

Document Summary

Race and crime lecture notes week 13 & 14. Race as a social and political construction. Once again, this cannot be prevented because it is so subtle, almost invisible and denied by organizations. Cultural representations of crime and criminality informed by race. Racialization of crime and the criminalization of race : Racialization of crime: the process through which crime is constructed or defined in racial terms. Eventually, these constructed representations and images of crime lead to the criminalization of race. Groups of people are negatively represented in our society because of our paradigms and constructed images about them. Criminalization of race: the treatment of particular racialized groups with the assumption that they are all criminals. This ultimately leads to racial profiling and systemic racism. Absence of canadian statistics on race and crime: validity and interpretation of race-based crime statistics, problematic policy implications.