SOC 3750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.1: Congee, Rais, Racial Profiling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

The usual suspects: police stop and search practices in canada. Racial profiling with respect to police stop and search practices has emerged as a controversial issue: black community especially vocal. Allegations of racial bias denied by major police services. Researching possible racial bias is difficult in canada: complete ban on collection and release of all race-crime data, most research has been qualitative in nature. Qualitative studies provide rich detail, but results are difficult to generalize because they are based on a small, non-random sample: previous studies focused on the black community in isolation. Blacks much more likely to perceive racial profiling as a major social problem than chinese or whites: (cid:1009)7% (cid:271)la(cid:272)ks (cid:448)ie(cid:449) it as (cid:858)(cid:271)ig pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)(cid:859) (cid:272)o(cid:373)pared to (cid:1006)(cid:1005)% (cid:449)hites, (cid:1005)(cid:1008)% chi(cid:374)ese. Black males particularly vulnerable: 23% stopped on three or more occasions in past two years compared to 8% white males and 6%