Today, race is regarded by experts as
primarily a social construct
__________ are those factors that have no legal legitimate basis and can include
things like race, ethnicity, gender, class and other characteristics. These can
become sources of bias throughout the criminal justice system.
Extralegal factors
T/F: Scholar Heather MacDonald argues the primary cause of the high rate of
incarceration of African Americans is the result of racism of police, prosecutors,
judges, and correctional personnel
False
The term _________ discrimination refers to differential treatment. It is an action.
discrimination
Which of the following is/ are not example(s) of a racial hoax?
1) a Mexican-American making up a crime involving a White offender
2) a White law enforcement officer making up crimes and arresting African Americans
for the made up crimes
3) a White woman accusing an African American man of a crime she committed
_________ discrimination involves differences in outcomes based on policies and
formal practices that result in different outcomes
Institutionalized
A limitation of UCR data is that
1) it reports on five racial categories, but only ethnicity data on Hispanic and nonHispanic
2) not all agencies report on ethnicity
One issue with UCR hate crime data is that
******many law enforcement agencies fail to report hate crimes
According to Ta-Nehisi Coates in "What we mean when we say 'Race is a Social
Construct'"
**********
T/F: The term "minority" in this course simply refers to a population size being
50% (a statistical minority)
False
Mitchell and Caudy's study "Race Differences in Drug Offending and Drug
Distribution Arrests" found
neighborhood (community) context explains the disparities in drug arrests between
Whites and Hispanics
The "differential criminal justice system selection hypothesis," asserts that
differential police presence, patrolling, and profiling, combined with
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