CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Representation, Symbolic Racism, Racialization

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

Document Summary

Criminology semester ll notes: social representations of race and crime, racialization of crime and the, criminalization of race , dilemmas of definition and measurement, explaining the race-crime link, differential offending versus. Refers to the expression of openly racist and discriminatory attitudes and intent. Expressed through practices like jim crow laws in the us and residential schools in canada. Considerations of race do not inform our beliefs or institutional practices. Reality: dilemmas of definition and measurement: absence of canadian statistics on race and crime, validity and interpretation of race-based crime statistics, role of racism in the criminal justice system, police interpretation and how they deal with the situation. Is it measuring crime or victim interpretation: contributes to racial profiling, prison population, problematic policy implications, available data confined to prison populations, over-representation of aboriginal peoples in both federal and provincial prison systems, over-representation of blacks particularly in ontario. According to u. s. data, african-americans are over-represented in both arrest statistics and prison populations.