10/21 unit 3 sociology criminal justice system

Lynch mobs

What used to control Black people after slavery?

Protect protecting white women from black men

The public justified lynching as

No

Is prejudice to cause of lynching

Prejudice

Cause of discrimination cannot be Reduced to…

Protecting other groups from it

Institutional structures facilitate racial discrimination against some groups while.

Expanded

The prison system… To control recently freed Black slaves

Criminalized

Vacancy laws… Poverty

Convict leasing programs

A system in which the government rented incarcerated people to private companies or contractors who put them to work in camps, minds, plantations, railroads, or logging operations. The companies paid the government for their labor, while prisoners often endured enforced, labor, brutal punishment, and dangerous, living and working conditions.

Neo slavery

Prison labor camps equals

Hate

Racism is intentionally engaged in by people who have malicious intent

Structural racism

Racial discrimination is woven into the fabric of society

Implicit bias

Most people draw an unconscious racial ideas When categorizing and assessing others

Insufficient

The common understandings of racism are… explanations for many manifestations of racism

Cannot

Convict leasing… Be explained by the three common understandings of racism

Strategic racism

Purposeful effort to use racial animus(strong dislike)as leverage to gain material wealth, political power, and or heighten social standing

Victories of the civil rights movement

Brown versus Board of Education, civil rights act, voting rights act

Backlash to gains made by the civil rights movement

Tough on crime policies, the war on drugs

Tough on crime policies

Laws and government practices that emphasize strict punishment for criminal offenses often through long or prison sentences. Mandatory minimum sentences increase policing and fewer opportunities for early release.

The war on drugs

Series of US government policies beginning in the 1970s that increased law-enforcement arrest and prison sentences for drug related defenses. President Richard Nixon formally announced the war drugs in 1971 and later administrations expanded it

Decline

From 1972 today, lynching and racialized terrorism and convict leasing has been on the

Incarceration

In 1970s experts began to question the effectiveness of

The prison boom

Dramatic increase in the number of people incarcerated in the United States, especially from the 1970s through the 2000

Changes in sentencing policy

What’s behind the prison boom

Quadruple

Drug arrest… Between 1965 and 2001

Black people

Who’s been arrested for Drugs more

More

Whites use marijuana… then blacks

Prison labor camps

What did web DU Bois describe as slavery in all but name