Crimes of colour : racialization and the criminal justice system in Canada

Mirchandani, Kiran, 1968- (Added Author). Chan, Wendy, 1966- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1551113031 :
Physical Description: print
221 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

From race and crime to racialization and criminalization / Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan -- Settler capitalism and the construction of immigrants and "Indians" as racialized others / Andrea McCalla and Vic Satzewich -- Defining sexual promiscuity: "race," gender, and class in the operation of Ontario's Female Refuges Act, 1930-1960 / Joan Sangster -- The criminalization of "race," the racialization of crime / Yasmin Jiwani -- Looking at law through the lens of culture: a provocative case / Audrey Macklin -- Racism and the collection of statistics relating to race and ethnicity / Julian V. Roberts -- Police constructions of race and gender in street gangs / Gladys L. Symons -- The criminalization of aboriginal women: commentary by a community activist / Colleen Anne Dell -- The justice system and Canada's aboriginal peoples: the persistence of racial discrimination / John H. Hylton -- "Making sense" of moral panics: excavating the cultural foundations of the "young, black mugger" / Chris 'Nob" Doran -- The social and legal banishment of anti-racism: a black perspective / Akua Benjamin -- Dangerous duality: the "net effect" of immigration and deportation on Jamaicans in Canada / Annmarie Barnes.