CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Human Genome Project, Fox News, Rubin Carter

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

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**** definitely will be on the exam (racial discriminations, rodney king, etc. ) Objectives: cultural representations of race and crime a) Criminalization of race : dilemmas of de nition and measurement, explaining the race-crime link, differential offending versus, racial discrimination. Racial identities of certain groups were in contrast with the physical appearance of being white . The origin for one of the ways we continue to think about race. A privileging of witnesses and the attempts to identify departures from white . Elaborate classi cation systems that were part of the scienti c study of. Whit his a pinnacle than other groups de ned from their departures from the standard white subject. Believed that they typologies could be used to account for variations in a while range of abilities, aptitudes and behaviours ranging from intelligence all the way to things like aggression and violence.