POL SCI 179- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)

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Minh dang : broken-open hearts as an engine for activism. Was a victim of human trafficking, incest and rape. Shattered into thousands of irreparable pieces due to sadness. Validating a social problem is part of the process to demand public action. Validation is a step towards getting resources. Week 1: the structural causes of violence in. 40 years of a structures that makes violence prones in disadvantaged communities. Declining employment & earnings (especially among males), because of: Legal discrimination against felons (when they try to get a job) A little structural unemployment is like a vicious cycle no job now, not likely to work later. Rise in mass incarceration in the past 40 years (he compares this to russia"s gulags!) Felony conviction and/or imprisonment reduces lifelong earnings and employment by. It"s not the amount of time, it"s the conviction itself! 68% of black men without a high school diploma will be incarcerated.