SOC445H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Fact, Biculturalism, Ethnocentrism
Document Summary
Racism in the criminal justice system: begins at micro level, racially biased attitudes. White judges can have stereotypical attitudes, behaviours and views. Many judges believe blacks more prone to criminal events. Atypical events become presented as typical: media influence. Black on black crime used to justify over-incarceration of black men in us and canada: presents black men as being the perpetrators of crime, lack of representation. Increase in racialized law students: sentencing disparities. Disparities exist in treatments at each stage of sentencing process. The report of the commission on systemic racism in the ontario criminal justice system 1995. Black men denied bail, spent more time in prison than white men. Whites given lenient sentences than blacks, even though they were more likely to have a criminal record or a record of more serious offences. Lasting implications, institutionalize communities where male figures are absent.
