CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Symbolic Racism, Toronto Police Service, Systemic Bias

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Objectives: cultural representations of race and crime a. b. * criminalization of race : dilemma of definition and measurement, explaining the race- crime link, differential offending versus, racial discrimination. This is a question that very few criminologists actually look at. Proposal of creating a table to categorize people and draw the line where one can be considered white or black. Problems with this assumption= race is a biological category. If you look at this fr. biological perspective, what is revealed is that there is greater genetic variation within the same race grps than between race grps (ex: more genetic variations between whites than whites and hispanic for example) For example: germans, poles, italians & other immigrants fr. southern europe were classified as non-whites according to the classification table of whites and non-whites. We no longer think of race as biological (using science to justify racism/discriminatory policies)