SOC 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Michael Dukakis, Private Prison, Immigration Detention
7 May 2018
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SOC 214: CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Intro/1972: 300,000
13th amendment
- Forbids slavery except when convicted of a crime
- Loophole exploited African Americans arrested in
mass for extremely minor crimes after civil war
- Grants freedom to all Americans besides criminals
“Birth of a Nation” and New Wave of Terrorism
- 1st natural blockbuster
- Portrayed blacks as monsters animalistic
- Erases defeat
- Black people portrayed as a threat to white women
- Responsible for KKK rebirth
- New wave of terrorism: lynching, murder by mob
deemed illegal
- Jim Crow: legalized discrimination
Civil Rights Act and Voting Act
- Jim Crow Laws passed that relegated African
Americans to a permanent second-class status
- ^ fixed at same time as crime rate was increasing
- began to see importance of not only building a civil
rights movement, but also a human rights movement
- Civil Rights Acts: aimed to fix issues between race
1964 ended segregation
- Voting act 1965 prohibits racial discrimination in
voting
1970: 357,292
Politics and Nixon’s role
- Law and order outcry for this, Nixon tried to deliver it
- Respect law
- Against black and women’s movements
- Resigned before he could be impeached
- Southern strategy: thinly built racial appeal
- Federal spending for local law enforcement will double
- Crime war drug war public enemy #1
- Southern whites turned into republicans
“Nation of Laws”
- John Adams
- Nation of laws not a nation of men
“Dog-Whistle Politics”
- political messaging employing coded language that
appears to mean one thing to the general population
but has an additional, different, or more specific
resonance for a targeted subgroup
Total War- Who was public enemy #1?
- drugs
1980: 513,900
Politics and Reagan’s role
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Document Summary
Forbids slavery except when convicted of a crime. Loophole exploited african americans arrested in mass for extremely minor crimes after civil war. Grants freedom to all americans besides criminals. Birth of a nation and new wave of terrorism. Black people portrayed as a threat to white women. New wave of terrorism: lynching, murder by mob deemed illegal. Jim crow laws passed that relegated african. ^ fixed at same time as crime rate was increasing. Began to see importance of not only building a civil rights movement, but also a human rights movement. Civil rights acts: aimed to fix issues between race. Voting act 1965 prohibits racial discrimination in. Law and order outcry for this, nixon tried to deliver it. Federal spending for local law enforcement will double. Crime war drug war public enemy #1. Nation of laws not a nation of men.
