Canada’s Inequality Story: Racial Injustice and Young Black Men

Authors

  • Adam Lake

Abstract

Racialized youth are highly overrepresented in the Canadian juvenile justice system. This study, designed to investigate the persistence of biases within the justice system, gathers information from young African-Canadian adults 19–26 from the Greater Toronto Area (Canada). Racial stereotyping and anti-Black racism are constant and communities mistrust the police. Results suggest that institutional and systemic forms of discrimination contribute to the criminalization of minority youth.

Cover image: Reflections by Marissa Magneson and Joshua Prescott

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Published

2022-02-13

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Lake, A. (2022). Canada’s Inequality Story: Racial Injustice and Young Black Men. Revue YOUR Review (York Online Undergraduate Research), 7. Retrieved from https://yourreview.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/yourreview/article/view/40641

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Volume 6/7 (2019/2020)

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Abstracts & Posters

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