CRIM 1650 Chapter Notes -Anomie, Racial Profiling, Carjacking

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

Document Summary

Racialization of crime: the process through which crime is constructed or defined in explicitly racial terms. Symbolic racism is involved in process if racialization of crime. Groups of people are negatively represented through coded language and symbols producing race based accounts of common social problems. Strain theory leads to it and structural functions. (blaming the individual) Criminalization of race: the treatment of particular radicalized groups as though they are potentially criminals. Racial profiling and systemic racism; strain theory leads to it and structural functions (mexicans and marijuana are one and the same; blamed them for having marijuana) Racial hoax: myth of susan smith = she said because we know all know that black men carjack she said; her car was carjacked by black males and kidnapped her children and was left on the street. Systemic racism: the processes of intuitions and about the effects of consequences and implications of symbolic racism.