SOC336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Extortion, Hate Crime, Social Capital
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Crime and immigration: vincent sacco (dept. of sociology queen"s university) There are many ways to think about the relationship between immigration experience and crime: How does immigration affect offending behaviour (the criminogenic question): i. e. think about mexican border relationships with us, does the experience of immigration relate to offends more. How does immigration affect victimization (the victimogenic question): does it make one more victimized. Of these the first question has attracted the lion"s share of attention. Since the 19th c, raicist assumptions and dominant stereotypes have ocntextualized the search for naswers. These arguments are nurtured by scientific racism the attempt ot argue that there are physical differences in people and are related to behavioural differences. You could examine people"s skulls and measure certain parts of their brain, you could end up arguing they are more likely to be criminal or thieves, murderers, etc. This was taken very seriously by reasonably intelligent people at the time.
