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Summary: Cultural Differences In Crime Simulation

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European customs were built into the charter of right for freedom. Alternatively, for Non Status Indian the right to freedom meant loss of Native Identity (McCauley 2015). By enfranchising, a person was supposed to be consenting to abandon native identity and communal society (with its artificial legal disabilities) in order to merge with the "free," individualistic and non-native majority.
The residential school were government funded, religious schools established in 1880 to assimilate Aboriginal children into dominant Canadian culture, and convert them to Christianity (The Canadian Encyclopedia). This policy mandated the removal of Aboriginal children, from their homes and distancing them from the influence of their families and culture …show more content…

However the differentiation does not end at census and collecting data, information it spills over to criminology. Data in crime reports is consistently separated by race, which is compiled in arrest report, intensifying the difference between in crimes committed by Blacks and whites, while neutralizing crimes committed by other minorities (Covington 549). However, criminologists question these results, as they claim that the large difference in the number of arrest between whites and people of colour is not a true reflection of the amount of crimes committed by each rate, but actually represents police bias (Covington 550). Furthermore with the increase in information racialization of crimes arises. Indicating and alienating violent crimes to people of black ethnicity, because they are more likely to retaliate as they value honor more than human life (Covington 552). However some scholars argue, that the priority placed in honor, by some individuals is linked to historical violence they have experienced, through colonialism, slavery and inequality

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