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This free course, Race, ethnicity and crime, briefly examines the relationships between race and ethnicity, and crime, criminalization and criminal justice. It considers the relationship between crime and cultural difference; the notion of 'criminalization' and how its processes affect individuals and their opportunities; and the lived consequences of racialization. Specifically, you will examine the ways in which this criminalization which lead to the over-policing, over-incarceration and under-protection of particular populations lie at the heart of critical criminological arguments.
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Introduction
This course examines the relationships between race and ethnicity and crime, criminalization and criminal justice. It sets out why critical perspectives are concerned about the problematic ways in which race and crime have been – and continue to be – connected.Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:- Explain why the concept of criminalization is valuable for the understanding of race–crime debates
- Describe the problem of disproportionality in relation to the criminal justice system
- Provide examples of some of the ways in which critical criminology has conceptually approached and researched ‘race’ and ethnicity.
