CRIM 1650 Study Guide - Final Guide: Recreational Drug Use, White-Collar Crime, Limited Government

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

Document Summary

Process through which crime is defined through race based terms. Symbolic racism signifies meaning and assumptions that decontextualize the link between race and crime. Links specific groups to crime (visible minorities targeted) Significant because crime is more than race and biology. Specifically targeting behaviours of individuals to control and regulate them. Mass incarceration of the black community especially in the united states, this is the new jim crow and a form of modern day slavery, emergence as a well-disguised system of racialized social control. Media portrayals of certain cultures and groups of people. Subtle, indirect, and perhaps the most prevalent racial attitude today. People make assumptions without recognizing the decreased opportunities and barriers these groups may face. Dominate representations are constructed about race and crime. Idea that certain races are predisposed towards crime due to symbolic racism. Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting behaviour.