HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Toronto Star, Black Canadians, Social Disorganization Theory
29 Jul 2019
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The criminal actor is created by influential externalities, that is, deterministic forces (outside the individual) which govern both beliefs and behaviour. A normative epistemology maintains that rules provide the necessary and functional constrains on individuals and their respective moral worlds. This perspective narrative encourages an investigation of conditions in the wider social environment such as the social disorganization. The article is about how black and indigenous people happen to get arrested usually for the possession of cannabis even though everyone does it. We can literally see from coast to coast that there are pretty stark racial differences in terms of who is arrested for minor cannabis possession. A 2017 toronto star investigation showed that black people with no criminal convictions were three times more likely to be arrested for weed possession than white people in the city with similar backgrounds.
