Various groups are stereotyped in various ways and to various detriment. Aside from gender, race, preferences and habits people perceive their potential selves and belonging. All therefore occurring groups can easily be seen as social types and have their own representation. Historically, transnational women’s movement gathered exciting spaces where ideas became exchanged, friendships were formed, […]
Legal sentencing has been acknowledged to contribute from consideration of social context evidence uses and became seen as in need of assessment for relevant systemic and background constructs such as racial prejudice. Whereby hereinafter race is referred to as a social construction that is in such understanding obstacles neutrality of decision making due to such […]
While white settlers brough along the Black people held as slaves when they came to Canada, by 1767 there were 104 free Black persons living in such geographic areas of Canada as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The future American War of Independence of 1775-1783 came with the British promise of freedom […]
When it comes to social relations, law adds and simultaneously stands alone, law – is generally binding and formally defined type of social norms. Law holds societal importance and concerns every individual, social group and society as a whole. It is based on social consciousness, people reflect the surrounding reality, perform social functions, and construct […]
Disabilities within criminal justice system’s penal practice and experiences of justice create and become created by prison culture. Disablism, criminological and penological research examined the ‘barriers of doing’ and ‘barriers of being’ in relation to incarceration as experienced by the people with various forms of disabilities. However, no adequate records of people with disabilities may […]
Poverty has been found closely related to human rights violations. In Canada, Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is tasked with advancement of human rights through accentuation of the ways in which systematic discrimination causes and sustains poverty, as well as addresses poverty within a human rights framework. 1 Poverty further becomes seen as failures of […]