Module 6
In discussing the role of law and social control, this scholar emphasized that the government has a monopoly on the "legitimate" use of coercion -- detention, arrest, incarceration, and execution.
Who is Donald Black?
Engel and Calnon (2004) found that the odds that a Black driver would receive a citation were _________ compared with the odds for white drivers.
What is higher?
In this Supreme court case, the court upheld the action of a Mississippi town that closed all of its public swimming pools rather than integrate them.
What is Palmer v. Thompson
The term for a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity.
What is a pretextual stop?
This approach to gender inequality calls for differential treatment of women and men on the basis that there are some very real differences that exist in the situations of men and women.
What is the difference perspective
This program recruited local law enforcement to assist in immigration and deportation matters.
What is Secure Communities?
This financial crisis was primarily caused by lax underwriting standards for mortgages and underregulated credit rating agencies who gave high credit ratings to risky mortgage securities (investments)
What is the Great Recession?
In the book's discussion of the "Dorm Room Dealers" study, this is the term for the network of affluent, mostly white college students who supplied marijuana and other drugs to Southern California colleges who operated with relative impunity and yet did not end up in the criminal justice system.
What are antitargets?
Causing the death of a worker by willfully violating safety laws is a ________________ offense
misdemeanor
This is the court case that allowed police officers to detain a civilian if they can articulate a reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is "afoot."
Terry v. Ohio