Required Reading
READING ASSIGNMENT #6–CHAPTER 11: THE COLOR OF JUSTICE
Please respond to THREE of the FIVE BELOW. Each response should be 300 words or more. Your responses should be in your own words and submitted via Turnitin thru canvas. Any assignment that shows signs of plagiarism or any tool of cheating will receive a “Zero”.
1. Is racial polarization increasing or decreasing in contemporary America? Explain your response.
2. How have the media contributed to public perceptions that the typical offender is a racial or ethnic minority, and the typical victim is white?
3. Explain what is meant by the claim that the criminal justice system is characterized by contextual discrimination.
4. Explain how U.S. Supreme Court rulings on jury makeup, legal representation, or another procedural issue have contributed to reductions in systematic racial discrimination within the criminal justice system.
5. Given the persistence of identifiable racial discrimination in the application of the death penalty, should we reform capital punishment? If so, how? If not, why not?
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