Crimes of Colour

by Chan, Wendy; Mirchandani, Kiran

• ISBN13: 9781551113036
• ISBN10: 1551113031
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(9)
From Race and Crime to Racialization and Criminalization	9	(16)
Kiran Mirchandani
Wendy Chan
PART I HISTORY
Settler Capitalism and the Construction of Immigrants and ``Indians'' as Racialized Others	25	(20)
Andrea McCalla
Vic Satzewich
Defining Sexual Promiscuity: ``Race,'' Gender, and Class in the Operation of Ontario's Female Refuges Act, 1930-1960	45	(22)
Joan Sangster
PART II RACIALIZATION AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM
The Criminalization of ``Race,'' the Racialization of Crime	67	(20)
Yasmin Jiwani
Looking at Law through the Lens of Culture: A Provocative Case	87	(14)
Audrey Macklin
Racism and the Collection of Statistics Relating to Race and Ethnicity	101	(14)
Julian V. Roberts
PART III PROCESSES OF RACIALIZATION AND CRIMINALIZATION
Police Constructions of Race and Gender in Street Gangs	115	(12)
Gladys L. Symons
The Criminalization of Aboriginal Women: Commentary by a Community Activist	127	(12)
Colleen Anne Dell
The Justice System and Canada's Aboriginal Peoples: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination	139	(18)
John H. Hylton
``Making Sense'' of Moral Panics: Excavating the Cultural Foundations of the ``Young, Black Mugger''	157	(20)
Chris `Nob' Doran
The Social and Legal Banishment of Anti-racism: A Black Perspective	177	(14)
Akua Benjamin
Dangerous Duality: The ``Net Effect'' of Immigration and Deportation on Jamaicans in Canada	191	(14)
Annmarie Barnes
Appendix	205	(4)
Contributors	209	(4)
Index	213