CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Convenience Store, Emily Murphy, Toronto Police Service
21 Sep 2017
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Black lives matter (toronto) - started with the killing of trayvon martin - george. Attending hockey game, arrested for open beer. Was an altercation and then shot in the back and dead in detachment, in-custody death investigation. The evidence has to support the charge - a lot of accountability mechanisms. Thursday, september 21, 2017: was justice served at the end of the day, inequality and intersectionality. The nature and e ects of criminal justice are shaped by broader intersecting social relations of power. Police discretion - can have racialized, sex over tones: socio-historical context: change over time and place. De nitions of crime, models of punishment and severity of punishment change over time and place. In uences by many historically and culturally speci c factors: moral beliefs, discrimination, political ideologies and agendas, grass-roots political struggles, economic interests, the media, etc.
