Readings Weeks 1-3
This has peanut butter, honey, oatmeal, graham crackers, caramel and M&Ms.
What are Bailey bars?
This reinforces state authority and reasserts hegemonic values under the guise of "preventing crime".
What is a prison nation?
Many of the poems we have read could easily be analyzed by this theory because of their use of metaphors and other descriptors.
What is symbolic interactionism theory?
Compared to White people, Blacks are this many more times likely to be incarecerated.
What is 5 times?
(Kilgore, "The Big Picture")
She's from Colombia.
Who is Loreine?
This is how much "five kilos of mangos" are worth.
What is $260?
This reading suggested abolishing the cash bail system.
What is "Reform or Abolish" by Lyle C. May?
This theory would see the injustice of charging incarcerated people high rates to make phone calls while paying them pennies for their labor.
What is conflict theory?
This is the percentage of the imprisoned population that are people of color.
What is more than 70%?
(Davis, "Masked Racism", p. 2)
These are our two canine classmates. :)
Who are Coffee and Izzy?
This is the year that Angela Davis wrote, Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex.
What is 1998?
These "fluid related" words are despised by poet Elizabeth Hawes.
What are: moisture, sweat, slurp, urine and gulp?
This theory would agree with deterrence theory that potential criminals weigh whether they might get caught before committing a crime.
What is Exchange/Rational Choice theory?
This is the average annual cost per federal prisoner.
What is $30,000?
(May, "The Myth of Deterrence", p. 96)
He always wears positive, inspirational hoodies :)
Who is Chris?
These three countries are represented in our readings from Weeks 1-3.
What are Palestine (Darwish), Egypt (Naji), and the US.
This poet wrote about "purple cranesbills".
Who is Reginald Dwayne Betts?
This theory might say, "we need a little bit of deviance and crime in society to show people what safety and security is and to establish proper norms to guide our behavior".
What is functionalism?
As of 2022, all people incarcerated in US jails, prisons and detention facilities equaled this number.
What is 1.9 million?
(Kilgore, "The Big Picture")
We have two doubles of these two names in our class and another pair that is almost the same!
2 Jakes and 2 Anna/Ana's and Jamez and James
These are the 6 processes of the making of a social problem (Week 1)
What are: claimsmaking, media coverage, public reaction, policy making, social problems work, policy outcomes?
This Iranian poet was imprisoned for being Baha'i.
Who is Mahvash Sabet?
This theory would say that poet Jill McDonough's use of the "pink angora cardigan" represents freedom to the women inside.
What is symbolic interactionism?
Washington was the first state to pass this law in 1993 which contributed to the rise in incarceration. California followed in 1994 and was the harshest in the country.
What is the Three Strikes Law?
The tallest and shortest students in our class?
Who are Robert and Layne?
(guessing here!)