CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jiwani, Racialization, Racial Profiling
12 Jan 2017
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Social construction of crime (definitions: politics of representation in law making, the connection of social constriction and law making, crime stats: what it is difficult to measure in accurate ways (accuracy)- what can they tell us. Criminalization: mean to turn a person into a criminal: not just language, actual practices, gendered, racialized, classed, when we criminalize a conduct, we attach stereotypes to specific people. For example, criminalizing robbery aka poverty related crimes. Ontario safe streets act, the behaviour of trespassing or kids washing your windshield. Who is targeted here: we must think about who is mostly affected. Racialization: set of practices, process of categorizing, they create conditions of discrimination, exploitation and exclusion. Once people are criminalized the enter the criminal justice system and they are stuck there. (access to lawyers, other things come into play) Criminalization of race= attaching to and equating certain crimes with racial group.
