CCJ 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Longitudinal Study
24 Apr 2018
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Roberts (2004: the transformation of prison policy at the turn of the twenty-first century is most accurately characterized as the mass incarceration of african americans . Community harm: damages social networks, distorts social norms, destroys social citizenship. Poll: racial profiling is a necessary part of policing: strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree. Romero (2006: micro-aggressions: racial affronts on a personal level , macro-aggressions: group affronts directed towards mexicanness" . The chandler roundup: five-day immigration raid, 432 suspects arrested, public outcry: racial profiling, official investigations. The complaints: 91 complaints of profiling, all were of mexican ancestry or latino, citizens and legal residents were stopped, 20/23 people detained were legal. Witness accounts: stopped because of their physical appearance, class and ethnicity, elderly neighbors feared the police, house-to-house searches. Poll: have you ever felt profiled by the police: yes, no. Life-course theories: theory that different stages in the life-course matter when predicting criminality.
