Three-strikes laws have resulted in which of the following?
a. Prison overcrowding
b. Increasing crime rates
c. Reducing prison costs
d. All of the above
a
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As opposed to organized crime, ______________ is inherently political, and as such it is relative to one's political view
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Racism that is practiced by many, if not most institutional members, in criminal justice and other organizations is known as:
A. discrimination B. disparity C. prisoners rights movement D. institutional racism
Who is the father of forensic psychology?
a. Munsterberg b. Kraepelin c. Healy d. Freud
In the case McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), the defendant introduced a study by University of Iowa Professor David Baldus proving African-American
defendants who killed white victims were significantly more likely to receive death sentences than any other racial combination of defendant and victim, such as white/white victim/defendant, black/black victim/defendant, white defendant/black victim. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to cite the Baldus study as fact, but the study has been cited many times in defendants' challenges to the imposition of the death penalty. Based on your experiences and your study of criminal justice issues to date, do you agree with defendant McCleskey that the Court should have recognized the "fact" of racial discrimination in death-penalty sentencing, or do you agree with the Court that race discrimination, while it sometimes matters in the criminal justice context, is not enough to overturn a lawfully imposed death sentence? Explain your reasoning. What will be an ideal response?