American Corrections: Concepts and Controversies
Second Edition
Learning Objectives
- To grasp the nature and extent of racial disparity in the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
- To understand some of the historical roots of that disparity.
- To be able to name several ways that race intersects with other key social factors.
- To be able to explain the issue of disproportionate minority contact in terms of relative incarceration rates.
- To grasp the concept of accumulation of disproportion throughout the justice system process.
- To understand some of the issues of race specific to African Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and Latinos in the justice system.
- To be capable of discussing the intersection of race, immigration, and the criminal justice system.
- To begin to understand the social context in which racial disproportion and mass incarceration have arisen.
- To grasp how issues of race in society permeate the boundaries of custody facilities and how they manifest in such facilities.