01:202:203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Terry Stop, Scottsboro Boys, Institutional Racism
7 Apr 2018
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Chapter 8 minorities in corrections, part i. Important to include social classes: racism and discrimination prevalent in cj system. Individual racism easier to detect than institutional racism. Myth of racist cj system: the myth of a racist criminal justice system famous book by wilbanks, had five main points. Not a constant impact across crimes and jurisdictions. Race of victim better predictor of sentence than race of defendant. Extralegal factors are not as predictive as legal variables: gender and race two biggest extralegal factors, means all things are equal. Black/white variation in sentences reduced when legal variables control situation. Important to examine other minorities such as hispanics or other minorities. Sometimes grouped into white category, and does not really help with patterns of discrimination: what may look like racism is in fact the discrepancy between race classes. Historical considerations: african americans have been targeted. Disproportionately represented in prison systems of all states.
