GE CLST 20B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sentencing Reform Act, Jim Crow Laws, Prima Facie

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 20B
• Professor: Ortiz Vilma

Document Summary

Institutionalized discrimination: disparities in outcomes result from established (institutionalized) policies: contextual discrimination: discrimination in certain situations or contexts. Individual acts of discrimination: carried out by particular justice officials. Regulate and keep separate blacks from whites. Many instances for indebtedness without proof that they own money. Lynching in the west: 1850-1935 by ken gonzales-day. Texas finally acknowledges rangers killed hundreds of latinos 1910s. Oppressive force in texans and attacked many mexicans. Racial disparities in marijuana possession arrest increased between 2001-2010. Blacks are much more likely to be arrested. Little discretion for judges, except to increase sentencing. Use most of their time issuing warrants. Under policing and abusive policing in minority and poor neighborhoods. Targeting of particular individuals by law enforcement authorities based on personal characteristics, not behavior. Black man men are 35% more likely than white men report stopped by police for a traffic violation.