Exam 19: Race Ethnicity and Corrections

Self-report studies show that have committed a crime.

No one can dispute the impact of the prison system's growth on young men of color.

Ethnicity relates to a person's language, religion, and group traditions.

President Barack Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act of , eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for crack and powder cocaine use by offenders.

The fact that African Americans and Latinos are subjected to the criminal justice system at considerably higher rates than other ethnic and racial groups is:​

As long as some groups in the United States are unfairly excluded from society's opportunities, they will have less motivation to obey its laws.

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below. -Discrimination​

Sentencing for drug crimes contributes to the high incarceration rate of African Americans.

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below. -Nearly everyone​

List and explain three ways in which the criminal justice system operates to allow for an overrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos/as in the prisons. Be sure and give one example involving the police, one involving the courts, and one involving corrections. In your opinion, what can be done to change this issue facing corrections?​

Discuss how the relationship between politics and criminal justice policy are reflective of race and punishment. Are there differences? How have the differences changed over time?​

Racial disparities become racial ______________ if people who are otherwise similar in their criminality are treated differently by the criminal justice system because of their race.

The unequal treatment of one group by the criminal justice system, compared with the treatment afforded other groups, is referred to as______________.

Hispanics and whites are subjected to the criminal justice system at much higher rates than blacks.

The gap between unemployment rates for African American men and every other group in society grows when:​

There have always been more African American men in prison than in college.

According to the authors, some people believe that factors result in large numbers of Hispanics and African Americans being processed in the criminal justice system.

Most Americans associate race with crime.

Match each item to the phrase or sentence listed below. -State presence?

Examination of self-report studies of criminality has often revealed that African American and white youths admit to similar participation levels in criminal and deviant activity.