HIST 4061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Fair Sentencing Act, Crack Cocaine, Douglas Massey
13 Aug 2016
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In dilulio"s view, he doesn"t disagree with massey but believes that there can be a more optimistic understanding of inner-city crime and how to deal with it. Most american street crime is intraracial (blacks against blacks) Dilulio mentions that massey says that extreme cases of violence (such as north philadelphia) are inevitable because of the cross between poverty and segregation: dilulio disagrees for 2 reasons: 1: epistemological reasons; massey speaks of analytic determinism one moment and preaches moral responsibility the next (scolding whites) Dilulio believes that the other america is still with us and exists mainly in black, high-crime, high-poverty, inner-city neighborhoods. He argues that massey"s theory should be tested against the possibility that the poverty- segregation nexus that he believes inevitably produces violent crime among today"s black youth was actually more acute in years past. American whites are murderous too, not just blacks.
