Race, ethnicity and crime
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Explore the complex relationship between race, ethnicity, and crime in this free course. Understand the impact of criminalization on marginalized populations and the need for critical criminology in addressing disproportionality within the criminal justice system.
This free course, Race, ethnicity and crime, briefly examines the relationships between race and ethnicity, and crime, criminalisation and criminal justice. It considers the relationship between crime and cultural difference
The notion of ‘criminalisation’ and how its processes affect individuals and their opportunities
And the lived consequences of racialisation. Specifically, you will examine the ways in which these criminalisations which lead to the over-policing, over-incarceration and under-protection of particular populations lie at the heart of critical criminological arguments.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Explain why the concept of criminalisation is valuable for understanding 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.
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