CRIM 1650 Study Guide - Final Guide: White-Collar Crime, Racialization, Social Purity Movement

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: Danny O' Rourke- Dicarlo

Document Summary

What is the problem regarding the category of race: race = fixed bio differences between people. Race & crime statistically used for political purposes to specifically convince a readership that crime is attached to bio: race, culture and ethnicity (a more elastic term that did not carry bio connotations) How do we theorize and produce knowledge on ethnicity: always real consequences of this stereotypes. Race connected to policy that aims to get tough on crime: always a fact with narrative in the media, stats should always be approached cautiously and critically because they don"t represent naked or unmediated facts. Chan suggested that race is something that has to understood and socially constructed and unstable: concept of race = racist history, highlighting essential differences between groups can: The move towards popular sentiment, the exaggeration of the amount of crime experiences by community, the amplification of victim hood and the.