01:920:108 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hartney, Reconstruction Era, Federal Housing Administration
15 Dec 2016
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Disproportionate impact on poor and minority communities. Incarceration: rates in incarceration have risen, in the 2000s, the percentage of non-college black men ages 22-30 that have been incarcerated is over 20%; the percentage of college black men is nearly. 15: high rates of incarceration among black men with no high school diploma. Incarcerations primarily for drug crimes, robbery, and other non-violent crimes: although crime rates have gone down, there has been a rise in incarceration. Black incarceration is disproportionate to their population size. Blacks are more likely to be searched. Blacks are more likely to be put into jail, likely because they are unable to make bail; this makes it harder for them to prepare a defense. Blacks serve longer sentences than whites with the same defense. Enduring minority status - labor participation & wealth accumulation. Effect of historical institutional racism housing policy.
