CRM/LAW C160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: De Jure, Decision Points, White Privilege
7 Dec 2016
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* not an argument about the actual, normative achievement of civil rights. * a reference to a historical period defined by several changes, including: Racial realists on race, crime and punishment today. How do subtle disparities accumulate in contemporary criminal justice; how does research mask/reveal these effects. * brown, chapter 4, (cid:498)race, crime and justice(cid:499) a. ) Is there still discrimination in criminal justice? a. ) Our knowledge (opinion) of whether and how race relates to criminal social control is dependent upon social research b. ) There have been 3 major waves (or phases) of social research in this are: * period (pre-1970) includes much of the period of de jure segregation and white privilege, and the early period of integration; * wave 1 studies lacked detailed data on the administration of justice (i. e. at multiple decision points), and relied on crude analytic methods (i. e. , descriptive statistics) to test the existence of discrimination.
