Criminalized Genders
My group’s topic is about Gender and Crime, though my sub-topic is about how gender is criminalized and how gender affects policing and legislation methods and or procedures.
Avdija (2014) wrote about the usage of stop and frisk practices, because to initiate a stop and frisk search, reasonable suspicion is required, which is when a reasonable person reasonably has a suspicion under certain circumstances, or facts, but he believes that there are interrelated factors that contribute to an officer initiating the motion. Avdija writes that an officer initiates a stop and frisk search, using external factors, such as a suspect’s gender, race, age, sex, under the guise of reasonable suspicion. The main purpose, then, is first …show more content…
Instead of writing that policing is just racialized, he brings up a good point about how people can also back up their argument, and state that policing is also gendered. Though the data does show that race does play a factor in an officer’s decision to stop someone, race and gender together are only a part of the larger interrelated factor that affect’s an officer’s decision to stop and frisk someone. Avdija does state that his study does reinforce previous studies, he brings up throughout the journal, which he then re-states, by saying officers are selective in who they do and don’t stop. Avdija brings up that, though his study does show that race plays a factor in who does and doesn’t get frisked and search, but overwhelmingly the data shows that ninety-percent of the people who were frisked were minorities. According to Avdija’s conclusion, race is one factor, showing that policing is racialized, but there is another factor, which he does not go over. Avdija says the other part is that, maybe because minorities are more likely to commit crimes. Avdija is not trying to prove that a certain race is committing more crimes in his study, but that his study shows that one race is stopped more frequently than …show more content…
Then Dottolo and Stewart bring up that the notion of discrimination is brought up early, because their children or relatives, have been subjected to constant interaction with the police. The police had been using a system called CARD, which stands for class, age, race, and dress, in order to hide some people’s racial prejudice. The child had been walking around dressed in a certain and then the police had stopped him for what he was wearing, but they couldn’t justify why they were stopping the child and were choosing their words carefully in order to prevent self-incrimination. But then the authors go into another account, in which the police didn’t criminalize a person, but stores would criminalize people for their
My group’s topic is about Gender and Crime, though my sub-topic is about how gender is criminalized and how gender affects policing and legislation methods and or procedures.
Avdija (2014) wrote about the usage of stop and frisk practices, because to initiate a stop and frisk search, reasonable suspicion is required, which is when a reasonable person reasonably has a suspicion under certain circumstances, or facts, but he believes that there are interrelated factors that contribute to an officer initiating the motion. Avdija writes that an officer initiates a stop and frisk search, using external factors, such as a suspect’s gender, race, age, sex, under the guise of reasonable suspicion. The main purpose, then, is first …show more content…
Instead of writing that policing is just racialized, he brings up a good point about how people can also back up their argument, and state that policing is also gendered. Though the data does show that race does play a factor in an officer’s decision to stop someone, race and gender together are only a part of the larger interrelated factor that affect’s an officer’s decision to stop and frisk someone. Avdija does state that his study does reinforce previous studies, he brings up throughout the journal, which he then re-states, by saying officers are selective in who they do and don’t stop. Avdija brings up that, though his study does show that race plays a factor in who does and doesn’t get frisked and search, but overwhelmingly the data shows that ninety-percent of the people who were frisked were minorities. According to Avdija’s conclusion, race is one factor, showing that policing is racialized, but there is another factor, which he does not go over. Avdija says the other part is that, maybe because minorities are more likely to commit crimes. Avdija is not trying to prove that a certain race is committing more crimes in his study, but that his study shows that one race is stopped more frequently than …show more content…
Then Dottolo and Stewart bring up that the notion of discrimination is brought up early, because their children or relatives, have been subjected to constant interaction with the police. The police had been using a system called CARD, which stands for class, age, race, and dress, in order to hide some people’s racial prejudice. The child had been walking around dressed in a certain and then the police had stopped him for what he was wearing, but they couldn’t justify why they were stopping the child and were choosing their words carefully in order to prevent self-incrimination. But then the authors go into another account, in which the police didn’t criminalize a person, but stores would criminalize people for their