CRIM 1650 Study Guide - Final Guide: Racial Profiling, Institutional Racism, Corporate Crime

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

Document Summary

Racialization and crime representation how crimes are represented through media and popular culture and the tendency for crime to be very closely fused with race because of these popular ideas. This gives the impression that crime is infused with certain marginalized groups within society. Through portrayals that crime get racialized the projects are closely associated with race mainly non - white people live there (this one comes first) Criminalization of race has to do with institutionalized practices which disproportionately target certain groups as prone to crime. Ex: racial profiling informed by the idea of typical groups being crime prone and the idea that they need to be policed differently. Symbolic racism refers to negative representations of social groups that are expressed through coded language and symbols. racism as it relates to language and discourse. The way we describe and talk about members of different groups within our society.