SOC205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Donald Marshall, Jr., Institutional Racism, Social Constructionism
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Critical race theory and aboriginal challenges to law. Biological fact or social construct: biological: people of different origins/ancestries have different risk factors for developing different diseases, social construct: how we define and identify race changes over time and across place. One-drop rule in us and canada vs. one-drop rule in certain: check-the-box census questions (cid:523)from (cid:498)white or black(cid:499) to (cid:498)white or black or latino or asian or aboriginal/indigenous(cid:499) to (cid:498)check all that apply(cid:499)(cid:524) Theories of crime from lombroso forward (and some earlier ones) treated race as a biological fact. Relied on perceptions that race determined criminal propensities because of inferiority or social position/low ses. Beaver et al. published a study stating that there was no evidence of racial discrimination in criminal justice system processing, and that the disparity of. African-american males having a higher chance of being arrested or incarcerated were accounted for after including covariates for self-reported lifetime violence and iq.
