Race and Crime
Implicit Bias
What is when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.
The terms ______ and bias crime refer to offenses committed against individuals because of their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
What is hate
These are the components of a theory
What are statement/proposition, concepts, and scope
This is why the 1970s was significance in The 13th
What is the beginning of the mass incarceration era
What is 2016
1790
When the first US Census was conducted
the primary statistical agency in the U.S. Department of Justice
What is the Bureau of Justice Statistics
This is Robert Merton's Strain Theory
Theory is based on the premise that all societies have: Culturally defined goal: “American Dream” (material wealth) Acceptable means of achieving it (education/work)
Thomas Jefferson wrote this text that laid out his thoughts on race
Notes on Virginia
Dr. Malone's wife's race and ethnicity (based on her birth certificate)
What is Caucasian (race) and Hispanic/Mexican (ethnicity)
Bracero Program
allowed Mexicans to come to the United States to do agricultural work during World War II
These are the three main measures of crime
What UCR, NIBRS, and NCVS
This is the variable DuBois adds to further understand social disorganization
What is discrimination
This is the "Southern Strategy" (provide an example)
What is the use of rhetoric and law to gain Southern white supporters to shape what would we know now as mass incarceration. Alluding to race without explicitly stating race. "Welfare queen" and "street crime"
The concept Dr. Malone's dad used to be sure Dr. Malone was telling the truth
triangulation
The California gold rush of the mid-1850s increased the immigration of this group to America
Racial data first appeared in the UCR in 1933, and included three categories including: Whites, Blacks, and ______.
What is Others
This is why Zone 2 is important for Burgess and Park's concentric zone theory
When neighborhoods began to become integrated, White families began to sell their homes in order to avoid loses.
What is white flight
These are the number of index crimes in the UCR
What are 8
Plessy v. Ferguson
During the following period, census data about convicted persons were the primary source of criminal statistics ______.
What is between 1850 and the early 1900s
This is a difference between "decent families" and "street families" according to Elijah Anderson's text, Code of the Streets.
Decent families tend to accept mainstream values and instill them in their children. Street families believe in the code and judge themselves and other according to its values.
This new facet of mass incarceration uses immigration policy with law enforcement in the criminalizing and consequent detaining and jailing of unauthorized immigrants in detention centers which model prisons
"Crimmigration"
These are the 5 tenets of Critical Race Theory
Racism is normal, not an aberration
Interest-convergence
Race and races are products of social thought and relations
Racial differentiation which contends society assigns specific roles ad privileges to different racial groups which put them in competition
The voices of people of color are unique