"The contributors do not mince words: racism is rife in the criminal justice system. They offer careful and courageous scholarship to support their claims and we would do well to heed them." - Sherene Razack, University of Toronto
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 364/.089/00971
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 1551113031 9781442602502
- LCCN
- HV9960.C2
- LCCN Item number
- C72 2002eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (221 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00205315 (OCoLC)191818952 (CaOOCEL)408045
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- 1 From Race and Crime to Racialization and Criminalization 10
- PART I: HISTORY 24
- 2 Settler Capitalism and the Construction of Immigrants and "Indians" as Racialized Others 26
- 3 Defining Sexual Promiscuity: "Race," Gender, and Class in the Operation of Ontario's Female Refuges Act, 1930-1960 46
- PART II: RACIALIZATION AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM 66
- 4 The Criminalization of "Race," the Racialization of Crime 68
- 5 Looking at Law through the Lens of Culture: A Provocative Case 88
- 6 Racism and the Collection of Statistics Relating to Race and Ethnicity 102
- PART III: PROCESSES OF RACIALIZATION AND CRIMINALIZATION 114
- 7 Police Constructions of Race and Gender in Street Gangs 116
- 8 The Criminalization of Aboriginal Women: Commentary by a Community Activist 128
- 9 The Justice System and Canada's Aboriginal Peoples: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination 140
- 10 "Making Sense" of Moral Panics: Excavating the Cultural Foundations of the "Young, Black Mugger" 158
- 11 The Social and Legal Banishment of Anti-racism: A Black Perspective 178
- 12 Dangerous Duality: The "Net Effect" of Immigration and Deportation on Jamaicans in Canada 192
- Appendix 206
- Contributors 210
- Index 214
- A 214
- B 214
- C 215
- D 216
- E 217
- F 217
- G 217
- H 217
- I 218
- J 218
- K 218
- L 218
- M 219
- N 219
- O 219
- P 219
- Q 220
- R 220
- S 221
- T 222
- U 222
- V 222
- W 222
- Y 222
