Forms of Exclusion: Racism and Community Policing in Canada

What roles do racism, law, and crime play in community policing? Forms of Exclusion examines these questions. Community policing as a social activity is contextualized culturally, mediated politically, and articulated in an exclusionary form. The law plays a central role in the reproduction and legitimation of forms of exclusion. The question of how racism persists is explained in terms of the power to criminalize through the discourse of community policing. Students and teachers of criminology, sociology, law, policy makers, and criminal justice professionals can apply this book to the problems of racial injustice in society.