According to Barak’s “Introduction”, “Our study of class, race, gender, and crime reveals that while class, race, or gender may feel more important at a specific point, one is not obviously more important than the others over time or situations.” Is this statement True or False?

1. Briefly explain the benefits (if any) of having taken this course.

2. According to Barak’s “Introduction”, “Our study of class, race, gender, and crime reveals that while class, race, or gender may feel more important at a specific point, one is not obviously more important than the others over time or situations.” Is this statement True or False?

3. According to what you have studied this semester (not your opinion), are Hispanic and African American men Over or Under represented in the incarcerated population?

4. Reiman’s “Conclusion” is titled “Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice”. Briefly explain what this means.

5. Reiman’s “Conclusion” states, “A criminal justice system should arrest, charge, convict, and sentence individuals with an eye only to their crime, not to their economic class.” Briefly explain this statement in relation to what you have learned in this course.

6. This is a two part question. Please respond to both parts to receive full credit….There are at least 10 characteristics that indicate the pursuit of restorative justice. A) Is this statement True or False? …. B) Name 2 of the characteristics.

7. According to the last page of Barak’s “Conclusion”, justice policies such as denial or restriction of welfare benefits, public assistance, educational grants, and the loss of the right to vote for persons convicted of crimes need to be seriously reconsidered and overhauled, because these types of policies and practices of disenfranchisement tend to eliminate situations of deprivation and to promote less criminality. Is this statement True or False as written?

8. In Barak’s conclusion, Elliott Currie is quoted as stating, If crime is heavily rooted in social structures and social policies that are created by human agency, then on its present level it is not an inevitable fact of modern life but is alterable through __________ action. (Please respond with only the word that fills in the blank.)

9. The United States has the largest per capita prison population in the world. Is this statement True or False?

10. According to Barak’s conclusion, “Current mandatory sentencing laws such as three strikes, even if uniformly applied, would still have adverse, accumulatively negative effects on African and _______ male Americans in particular, as these groups of the marginal classes are disproportionately overrepresented in prison. (Please respond with only the word that fills in the blank.)

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