SOC225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: General Social Survey, Racialization, Intimate Relationship
2 May 2018
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Wednesday, April 4
Babies Behind Bars
●In Canada there are controversial programs to allow mothers to keep their babies in prison
●“She has as much freedom as she wants, she never gets treated like an inmate”
●Teach them how to take care of the baby and manage their needs on the “outside”
●Privilege
●Argued that programs like this are a right
○Patricia Block
○Mother Baby Program
■Until Age of 4 to stay with mother (beginning 1997)
■Cancelled in 2008 because taking care of babies, not being their job
■Joined Human Rights Complaint
■Nationwide discussion on who gets to be a mom
○Had to be cleared by Children’s Services
■“Child Abuse to raise a child in jail”
●Court
○Closing the program took away the mother’s rights
○“They cannot be good mothers”
■“They don’t have the save morals, sam integrity”
○“I wouldn’t make any general statements to say this group of women is better mothers
than other mothers”
○Mandate is to rehabilitate, not punish
○An estimated 90% of mothers do not reoffend and continue to take care of their children
Victimization
Who is a Victim?
●A person who has suffered physical or emotional harm, property damage, or economic loss as a
result of a crime
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○Crime victims are often
“sidelined”
■Attention mostly on
perpetrators
■Victim has very little role
to play in the proceedings
●Can exercise a victim’s rights if the victim
is dead or not able to act on own behalf:
○Spouse/Common law partner
○Relative or dependent of victim
○Anyone who has custody of the
victim or of the victim’s dependent
●Information from Department of Justice
Victimization
●Victims generally receive little
consideration in criminal justice
proceedings
○Process must be fair and impartial
○Minimizing role of emotions in
determining guilt and sentencing
●Victim participation beyond these rights
would interfere with the accused right to a
fair trial
●Criminologist now recognize their
importance in the
who/what/where/when/why and how of
crime
●Victimology: study of the victim's role in
criminal transactions
○Transactions: criminal event itself
- what is their role in the exchange
of this crime being committed
●General Social Survey Data (Self Report)
○*reminder* every 5 years
○2009: ¼ of Canadians victimized
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■Significant majority of the crimes are minor
■9,792,000 crimes unreported
●Expect that these are mostly petty crimes
○2014: of Canadians victimized⅕
○Of all violent crime types,
■30% of all violent crimes were reported - pretty consistent
■Sexual assault as the least reported
■Robbery is pretty highly recorded
■Contrast≥
●Victimization to property (Household Victimization)
●Statistically significant difference
■Notice:
●Violent crimes is more underreported than property types of crimes
○Insurance for property
●Most commonly cited reason for not reporting
○MAJORITY: 78% of victims who did not bring an incident
to police attention believe the offence was too minor or likely
to not be taken seriously
○Lack of evidence
○Personal relationship with offender
The Nature of Victimization
●Patterns are stable and repetitive across surveys
○Victimination is NOT random, but rather a function of personal and ecological factors
●Offender and victim tend to be associated
○Acquaintance related VS Stranger-related crime
○*most relevant for sexual assault crimes-Acquaintance related crime*
○63% done by stranger - ROBBERY
●Crime is sometimes “victim precipitated”
○Active vs Passive
■Active: when victim directly contributes through aggressive behaviour and
provoking
■Passive: when victim possesses some personal or social characteristics making
them an attractive target
●Not about overt behaviour but rather traits
●Wealth, Opening gay, Muslim, Competing for a job, etc
●PASSIVE FAIR BEST IN COURT OF LAW
○Throwing the first punch does not excuse the murder - Laying the first kiss does excuse
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Document Summary
In canada there are controversial programs to allow mothers to keep their babies in prison. She has as much freedom as she wants, she never gets treated like an inmate . Teach them how to take care of the baby and manage their needs on the outside . Argued that programs like this are a right. Until age of 4 to stay with mother (beginning 1997) Cancelled in 2008 because taking care of babies, not being their job. Nationwide discussion on who gets to be a mom. Had to be cleared by children"s services. Child abuse to raise a child in jail . Closing the program took away the mother"s rights. They don"t have the save morals, sam integrity . I wouldn"t make any general statements to say this group of women is better mothers than other mothers . An estimated 90% of mothers do not reoffend and continue to take care of their children.
