L40 SOC 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: The New Jim Crow, Broken Windows Theory, Wu-Tang Clan
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Final response paper due to blackboard by class time on thursday. Devah pager on the mark of a criminal record. Systemic perspectives: mass incarceration and anti-civil rights enforcement. Alexander on the newest jim crow: e-carceration and the continuing chess match. Audit study to examine race reactions and criminal record reactions for entry-level jobs. Controlled through fictitious r sum s to prevent confounding factors. Mass incarceration is a method of racial control but it is not the only one. Employers can"t ask up front if an applicant has a criminal record. Can find criminal record information for free on the internet. The same companies that run these sites will expunge your online record for money. Ban the box has only caused employers to search for criminal records in different places.
