SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Critical Race Theory, Racial Profiling, White Supremacy
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Week 6: police & the social construction of deviance & normality (the case of racial profiling and the ku klux klan in the us & canada) Indirect discrimination practices that are = in a formal sense, but racially discriminatory in practice. For example, in certain places and at certain times. 2002 youth crime victimisation survey julian tanner and scot wortley. Independent variable and a dependent variable, we control for other variables that might explain the relationship. i. e. age, gender, subjective social class, living circumstances, everyday leisure activities. 49% of black youth who report no delinquent activity have been stopped and searched vs. only 17% of similar white youth. 83% of black youth who report the highest levels of delinquent activity have been stopped and searched vs. 82% of similar white youth: social construction of skin colour as deviance, master status everett hughes.