SOSC 1350 Chapter Notes -Crown Attorney, Canadian Bar Association, Actus Reus

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This section elaborates on how and where inequality intersects with the law"s claim to fairness, justice and equality. James messerchmidt, a theorist, has a book called crime as structured action . A key problem messerschmidt addresses is the need to understand the interconnections between gender, race and class. Messerchmidt notes that gender, race and class are neither static things nor finished products. Gender, race and class look very different when acted out in corporate boardrooms by privileged white men than they do in encounters between young aboriginal men on the street. The practices by which gender, race and class are made do not occur in a vacuum; they are influenced by social-structural constraints. Social structures are regular and patterned forms of interaction overtime that constrain and channel behavior in specific ways (messerchmodt 1997:5) Social structures are simply not out there .

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