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Urban Studies 101
Urban Poverty and Affluence

Assignment #11
Due: Tuesday

1)What role does race play in determining criminal behavior? Why?

It is race stereotyping that assigns and ethnic group an homogeneous character, allowing simplistic comparisons of different crime, when actually all ethnic groups actually are very heterogeneous. That kind of simplistic profiling has a direct impact in determining a criminal behavior of a certain race.

2)Describe the prison boom of the last twenty years. How does Christian Parenti explain the dramatic expansion of the criminal justice system?

According to Parenti in his Book "Lock down America", President Johnson laid the initial groundwork for the tremendous combination of police power, surveillance and incarceration that today so dominates domestic politics, but the rhetoric that would fuel the long criminal justice boom was first crafted by Sunbelt Republicans. Senator Goldwater first dredged up crime as a presidential......

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