Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada

Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada
Author: Wendy Chan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 144260574X

Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized. Employing an intersectional analysis, Chan and Chunn explore how the connection between race and crime is further affected by class, gender, and other social relations.The text covers not only conventional topics such as policing, sentencing, and the media, but also neglected areas such as the criminalization of immigration, poverty, and mental illness.

Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada

Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada
Author: Wendy Chan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442605766

Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized. Employing an intersectional analysis, Chan and Chunn explore how the connection between race and crime is further affected by class, gender, and other social relations.The text covers not only conventional topics such as policing, sentencing, and the media, but also neglected areas such as the criminalization of immigration, poverty, and mental illness.

Crimes of Colour

Crimes of Colour
Author: Wendy Chan
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781551113036

The essays in this collection explore the link between "race" and "crime" in the Canadian context, examining how individuals are racialized in the legal system, and describing how racialized groups and individuals are criminalized.

Race, Crime and Criminal Justice

Race, Crime and Criminal Justice
Author: A. Kalunta-Crumpton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230283950

This book provides a focused and critical international overview of the intersections between race, crime perpetration and victimization, and criminal justice policy and practice responses to crime perpetration and crime victimization.

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
Author: Akwasi Owusu-Bempah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317415035

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma, Second Edition, takes a unique comparative approach to the exploration of race- and ethnicity-related justice issues in five countries around the world. Using the colonial model as a theoretical lens, Owusu-Bempah and Gabbidon analyse data from Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. These international case studies help students contextualize race and justice issues within and across nations. Concise historical framing illuminates today’s racial dynamics in these diverse justice systems, and accessible theory grounds the comparison of crime and justice data from the early 21st century with current statistics. A new concluding chapter revisits the question of where these nations fit in the global context of state and non-state actors and of ethnic and racial justice issues. This new edition is suitable for use as a core or supplemental text for advanced undergraduates and early graduate courses on race and crime, minorities and criminal justice, diversity in criminal justice, and comparative justice systems. It is also appropriate for use in sociology and ethnic studies courses that focus on race and crime.

Policing Black Lives

Policing Black Lives
Author: Robyn Maynard
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1552669807

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates. Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.

Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies

Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies
Author: Derek M.D. Silva
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2022-05-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1801170010

This volume explores the theoretical and methodological maturity and diversity in reflexive accounts of criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as and teaching and research in criminology, queer criminology, the intersections of race and gender, indigeneity and decolonization, domestic violence and human rights.

The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
Author: Ramiro Martinez, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2018-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1119113776

This Handbook presents current and future studies on the changing dynamics of the role of immigrants and the impact of immigration, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations. It covers the changing dynamics of race, ethnicity, and immigration, and discusses how it all contributes to variations in crime, policing, and the overall justice system. Through acknowledging that some groups, especially people of color, are disproportionately influenced more than others in the case of criminal justice reactions, the “War on Drugs”, and hate crimes; this Handbook introduces the importance of studying race and crime so as to better understand it. It does so by recommending that researchers concentrate on ethnic diversity in a national and international context in order to broaden their demographic and expand their understanding of how to attain global change. Featuring contributions from top experts in the field, The Handbook of Race and Crime is presented in five sections—An Overview of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice; Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Crime; Race, Gender, and the Justice System; Gender and Crime; and Race, Gender and Comparative Criminology. Each section of the book addresses a key area of research, summarizes findings or shortcomings whenever possible, and provides new results relevant to race/crime and justice. Every contribution is written by a top expert in the field and based on the latest research. With a sharp focus on contemporary race, ethnicity, crime, and justice studies, The Handbook of Race and Crime is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars interested in the disciplines such as Criminology, Race and Ethnicity, Race and the Justice System, and the Sociology of Race.

Race, Crime, and Justice

Race, Crime, and Justice
Author: Shaun Gabbidon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135398631

A comprehensive collection of the essential writings on race and crime, this important Reader spans more than a century and clearly demonstrates the long-standing difficulties minorities have faced with the justice system. The editors skillfully draw on the classic work of such thinkers as W.E.B. DuBois and Gunnar Myrdal as well as the contemporary work of scholars such as Angela Davis, Joan Petersilia, John Hagen and Robert Sampson. This anthology also covers all of the major topics and issues from policing, courts, drugs and urban violence to inequality, racial profiling and capital punishment. This is required reading for courses in criminology and criminal justice, legal studies, sociology, social work and race.

Criminal Injustice

Criminal Injustice
Author: Robynne Neugebauer
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1551301644

This volume examines racism within the process of criminal justice. In every society criminal justice plays a key role establishing social control and maintaining the hegemony of the dominant economic classes. The contributors to this anthology argue that the differential treatment of people of colour and First Nations peoples is due to systemic racism within all levels of the criminal justice system, which serves these dominant classes. Ideological and cultural changes are preconditions for the success of anti-racist policies and practices within the criminal justice system and within other state institutions. Recommendations for transformations in justice policy and practice are provided.