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Abstract The substantive area of criminology has increasingly become politicized with new paradigms arising to challenge the traditional perspectives. For the purpose of this analysis the voluminous amount of criminological research and writing is placed within three major paradigms: (1) kinds of people, (2) kinds of environments, and (3) power/conflict. The increasing articulation of the power/conflict paradigm has brought about an intensification of conflict in society and among criminologists. The future of criminology and subsequently of criminologists will be determined by the interplay of these and emerging other paradigms among academic criminologists and their competing expression among the public at large.

MANY MORE CANADIANS DIE YEARLY FROM VIOLENT DEATHS DUE TO CANCER, AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS, HEART DISEASE, SUICIDE, AND OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES THAN FROM MURDER AND MANSLAUGHTER, BUT WE TEND TO FOCUS UPON THE LATTER CATEGORIES. OF COURSE, HOMICIDE HAS A READILY IDENTIFICABLE VICTIM AND OFFENDER AND IS INCLUDED UNDER THE CRIMINAL CODE. WE ALSO HAVE CRIMINAL STATUTES CONCERNING AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS AND SUICIDE, BUT NOT CONCERNING OCCUPATIONAL DEATH.

During the pandemic, routines were interrupted lives were changed and during this time, many individuals spent more time watching the news to learn more about how long it would take to resume normalcy. When George Floyd was murdered by four police officers, time stood still and the world watched. Outrage was immediate. The pandemic offered everyone the opportunity to witness tragedy unfold in front of them a brutality which happens every day, yet is easily ignored. This article examines the incidence of police homicides of people of color, the lack of law enforcement to seek solutions to their own internal structures and policies to correct these outrages, and the need for external accountability through legal and policy changes. Case studies are provided to illustrate the depth of issue.