SACR 3680 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pepper Spray, Racial Profiling, Shaw Taylor

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: SACR 3680
• Professor: Lippert

Document Summary

Have the same rights as their white neighbours. Elasticity: group capacity to react to changes in policing. Profiling means shifting police resources in direction of actuarial prediction. Profiling will increase success rate of searched and thus enhance capacity to incarceration criminals. If ration choice theory is true there is no in capitation effect once offending rates equalize due to profiling. A process of increasing disproportionally that happens in stages once grows over time. Police do not use these methods for profiling. Problem; normally carried our in private not public. Problem: media has become less critical than it used to be. More cooperation with police than theme used to be. Rcmp were in charge of national security as well as regular police serves. Commissions major findings :rcmp were involved in a number of illegal crimes. Did not prosecute rcmp officers from bc & alberta & ontario. Creation of csis so rcmp no longer deals with national security.