CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Smallpox, African Americans, Unix System Iii

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

Document Summary

Explaining the race crime link 1: disproportionate offending colonialism has roots back to the 1500"s between whites and first natives: historical legacies of colonialism and slavery. Race and crime: confronting the politics of race, invisibility and deniability of symbolic racism and systemic racism, the problem of policy. Criminalizing drug use: social construction: historical novelty of criminalization as a response to drug use many drugs illegal today were legal, but also widely consumed ex. soothing syrup, cocaine toothache drops. Hooked illegal drugs and how they became that way. What kinds of factors drove criminalization of marijuana in the us: wsnt the drugs itself but the groups consuming it, racial tensions, overt forms of racism, mexicans, also economic impact, media. Barriers to definition and measurement: defining corporate crime: the sutherland-tappan debate, harmful vs illegal: coporate harm as corporate crime, absence of reliable data, lack of research funding.