SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Racialization
20 Oct 2017
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Chan criminalizing race tutorial notes: the construction of the race- crime problem in canada. > positivist way = race is a knowable category and criminogenic characteristic (set in stone) Critical approach construction, criminalization, racialization (are a process, they can be changed and affected by other processes: racialized constructions of crime. Policies: tough on crime (harsher punishment on crimes) Stereotypes ties to tough on crime because racial groups mainly received harsher punishments. Just desserts case: uses the idea of two black man shooting a white woman is a big deal. When a white woman kills a black woman it is not as wrong. Immigrants and refugees have criminal tendencies fear of contamination by this criminal other. Policing non- white people not trusted- the need to be under surveillance. Race and poverty coloured people abusing welfare to get money.
