Module 5: Policing

Question 1

Deserving Victim

Answer 1

Individuals or groups who experience trauma or harm and receive support and sympathy from the community

Question 2

Over Policing

Answer 2

Task force reports, commission of inquiry and scholarly research papers have suggested that people of color are both over-policed and when they are seen as perpetrators and under-policed when they are vicitms

Question 3

Police Double Standard

Answer 3

Police do not take crimes against racialized groups as seriously as crimes against other non-racialized groups in Canada
When members of racialized groups are seen as perpetrators of crime they are over policed

Question 4

White Privilege

Answer 4

Refers to the hidden and unstated social benefits utilized by white people

Question 5

Undeserving Victim

Answer 5

Victims that society see’s as bringing trauma or harm on to themselves and thus receive less sympathy and support