SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ontario Police College, Visible Minority, Tokenism

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

Document Summary

Lecture 3 roles, recruitment & training part ii. Cohen and chaiken (1972: background checks predict future misconduct. Toda(cid:455): your (cid:862)data i(cid:373)age(cid:863: used to be informal, in-person, now, reliance on data surveillance. Risk management (officers = seen as both assets and liabilities) Pressure to recruit visible minorities and women: police should reflect population. In 2013, 9% of police were visible minority: approximately 20% of canadian population is visible minority. Challenges: competition for minority/female recruits between individual departments, visible minorities and culture of mistrust (cao 2011) Even if they apply, reluctant taking job for fear of being segregated, marginalized in community for becoming a cop: patriarchy and reluctance of women. Par(cid:374)a(cid:271)(cid:455)(cid:859)s resear(cid:272)h e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e: fe(cid:373)ales referred to as (cid:862)estroge(cid:374) (cid:373)afia(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:373)ale recruits, outcasts, not worthy of profession: tokenism and addition burden. Mi(cid:374)orities feel like the (cid:862)toke(cid:374) (cid:271)la(cid:272)k (cid:373)a(cid:374)/(cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)/korea(cid:374) (cid:272)op(cid:863) The assumption that because you are female/vietnamese/etc. , you somehow represent the essence of all women/vietnamese/etc.