[SOC 134] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 69 pages long Study Guide!
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Us has the highest incarceration rate in the world. 7 millions people in prison, jail, trial or on probation or parole (1/31 adults) African americans are 12% of monthly drug users, 38% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 59% of those in state prison for a drug offense. African americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of whites. Wisconsin"s race discrepancy is very high (look at bar charts on slide) Whites are favored in dane county and opposite for african americans. African american men who were killed by officers, the officers (la) were not convicted (la riots) Whites think that race is getting more attention than it deserved when it comes to shootings like these. We will focus on two types of social facts. Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understand both - c. wright mills (1959)
