Book: The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America, 5th Edition
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. Should states have racial hoax sentence enhancement statutes? Justify your answer. What should the content of such legislation be?
2. Does the media systematically discriminate against crime victims, favoring white victims? Or, is the discrimination contextual (see Chapter 1)? How does the media cover racial hoaxes? Does this coverage perpetuate the view of young African American males as the typical criminal offenders?
3. What are some of the possible explanations for the overrepresentation of minorities as crime victims? Are minority communities particularly vulnerable to crime? Why?
4. If most youth gangs are racially and ethnically homogenous, should law enforcement use race- and ethnic-specific strategies to fight gang formation and to control gang crime? Or, should law enforcement strategies be racially and ethnically neutral? What dilemmas are created for police departments who pursue each of these strategies? Is the likely result institutional or contextual discrimination?
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