Chapter 1

According to the author, law enforcers define the laws they enforce, which allows them to _________.

The author believes __________.

Which is NOT one of the author’s solutions to set the criminal justice system right?

What two questions does this book attempt to answer?

The author is ____________.

According to the author, “The criminal justice system has run off the rails. The system dispenses not justice according to the law, but the “justice” of official discretion. ______________ justice too often amounts to ____________ justice.

One of this book’s goals is to understand better why our criminal justice system tolerates so much crime and produces so little justice.

According to the author, within cities, crime is low in safe neighborhoods but remains a huge problem in dangerous ones.

According to the lecture, the modern notion of justice only applies to victims with no application to or consideration of offenders or criminal perpetrators.

Both of the U.S. Migragations triggered _________.

The author described __________ as more relational, more brutal, more corrupt, and lazier… Officers licensed vice rather than prohibiting it, and regulated crime rather than stamping it out.

In chapter one, the author explores three common reasons for high crime rates, which are:

According to the author, “People obey the law, when they do so, because they believe the system of law enforcement is fair and hence worthy of their respect. When the justice system seems _______________ to the young men it targets, those young men are more likely to follow those system’s rules.”

The author advocates for ______________.

€�Crime victims in black neighborhoods have difficulty convincing local police to take their victimization seriously, partly because victimization is so common. At the same time, police officers are quick to treat black men as suspects in settings where white men would not be so treated….” What concept is the author describing?

The crime wave, which followed each U.S. migration, differed enormously: the first was long-lasting and severe while the second was short-lived and mild.

__________ is the body of legal doctrine that defines crimes.

The author believes that a return to older models of legal doctrine would reduce the level of systemic injustice and may do a better job of controlling crime

According to the author, who primarly bears the cost of bad criminal justice policies?

Why did African-Americans migrate to cities during 1900 – 1965?

€�__________ are how we think, they are how we understand how the world works. As we go through life we build these very complex pictures in our minds of how the world works, and we’re constantly referring back to them.... That’s how we make sense of things.”

According to the lecture, which response below is NOT a lesson that the movie World War Z can teach us?

___________ frames research questions and guides scholarly interpretations with an intrinsic basis in empirical evidence, attempting validation or falsification.

__________ is described as belief systems closed to contradictory evidence with assumptions and reasoning are dogmatic.

_________ is described as revealing the underlying sources of inhibiting social conditions and sharing knowledge to free people from inhibiting conditions and be a catalyst for change and transformation.

Those that believe using the term criminal justice system gives preference to systems theory and excludes non-governmental entities such as the media, and non-profit organizations, would describe the operation of criminal justice as a(n) ___________.

There is no difference between criminology and criminal justice study; the terms are synonyms.

Which theory or theories believe(s) that "crime is a decision, not a disease"?

__________ operate as an “ethnoracial” social prisons within the cities, locked in structural economic marginality.