Forms of Exclusion: Racism and Community Policing in Canada

by David Baker and Bootnah violrds

What roles do racism, law, and crime play in community policing? Community policing as a social activity is contextualized culturally, mediated politically, and articulated in an exclusionary form. Exclusion plays an integral role in State's quest for legitimacy and in criminalizing racial groups. Law plays a central role in the reproduction and legitimation of forms of exclusion. The question of how racism persists is explained in terms of the power...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897160216
• ISBN13: 9781897160213
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: de Sitter Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"