Exam 6: Crime and Punishment

When boxer Mike Tyson was accused of raping Desiree Washington,a young black woman,many prominent African Americans,eager to quash the "black male rapist" trope,rushed to Tyson's side.This situation is an example of what?

What were the two important institutions that arose to control and confine nonwhites-African Americans in particular?

The textbook provides two different arguments about how the media shape society's attitudes about race and crime.What are the two arguments,which do you find most convincing,and why? Propose one suggestion for improving the media's portrayal of race.

As Michael Tonry writes in Malign Neglect,"Through [the twentieth century] in periods of high intolerance of drug use,minority group stereotypes have been associated with deviant drug use." What would be an example of this phenomenon?

Between 1880 and 1930,lynch mobs murdered how many black people?

The biggest increase in specific prison populations occurred between 1980 and 2011,a jump from 15,118 to 111,387.This represented a 587 percent increase in the number of _____ imprisoned.

What is the term for a form of social organization in which the dynamics of the market are given priority over other concerns?

Which kind of crime grosses between $300 billion and $660 billion each year?

Monica is a twenty-two-year-old woman,who,like other women,has a one in five chance of being raped in her lifetime.Who is most likely to perpetrate sexual violence against her?

Between 1925 and 1975,the prison population remained the same,fluctuating between 100,000 and 200,000 prisoners.By 2000,the prison population reached what number?