SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Racial Profiling

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

Document Summary

Week 9 thursday, march 8th: evaluating broken windows . Policing low level social and physical disorder community engagement lower crime rates. However, every time we take a look at broken windows, the reality is . Policy implications: profiling and rights (racial and ethnic profiling and civil rights, if you look at the number of charges with broken windows, you see a lot of complaints, criminalizing marginalized populations (eg. homelessness) of vulnerable populations. It does work for crime prevention but not the way it is supposed to. These resources will take away from other crime prevention tactics that are more effective (community policing) Leads to the movement that architecture can affect criminalization. He suspected that the left side has fewer stories so a certain group of people always use the same entry point to come into the building. Therefore, he says that prevents crime because people are able to recognize the people who come into certain entrances.