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  • SOC109 Lecture 19

Racialization of Crime

• Powerful groups can shape law
• Criminal justice is for the powerful and serves these hierarchies
• Types of crimes are associated with certain races or groups.
  • This is what the racialization of crime looks like
• Racial profiling is the primary harm of this.
  • Using race rather than actual criminal profiling to exert discretion.
  • Pre-textual stops
    • You wanna check someone out for other crimes, but will stop them for whatever.
  • Example: Young black street crimes
• Racial profiling negatively affect Procedural Justice.
  • When Legitimacy is low, we are less likely to call the police, to co-operate, etc.