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- demography
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FC:
large scale
stat study of pop processes
ex: fertility, mortality, migration - institutional approch
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FC:
how simliar institutions in all cultures; economic, religious, political, affect culture in different ways - effect of institutional change on kibuyu marriage
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FC:
adoption of western morals changed traditions in youth, married later - relationship of bridewealth, polygyny , education
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FC;
^education= -bridewealth, polygyny - victimization trends for household/property& violent crime
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1. Blax/Hispx
2. blax+more likely than whtz:
hispx +more lukely than -hispx - offending trends
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2/3 whtz
30% blx
(charged) - typ offender/victim crime re: race
- intraracial
- willie horton
- poster child bush sr.
- crack v coke & racial disparities
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Crack – cheaper form of drug, more heavily used by the poor and minorities
Cocaine – more expensive, used more heavily by upper-class whites
Federal Law
5 g of crack – 5 year mandatory sentence
500 g of cocaine – 5 year maximum sentence - rell betw race crim
- 1/3 of Black men supervised by Criminal Justice system
- Why is race related to crime?
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Exposure to crime
Community (age structure)
Culture
Economic status
Social learning
Family Structure - Theories in Crime
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soc str
soc lrn
soc disrg
conflct - soc strain
- – Disjunction between things want to attain and means to get it
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differential association
SOCIAL LEARNING - Learn delinquency from delinquents
- social disorganization
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Difficult to assert control over community members
lo income transient pop = -developmont community - conflict theory
- C.J. system reflects oppressed groups
- white collor v petty krime
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sentencing diffs
goin affter wrong guy - sentencing guidelines
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used to 'even' out sentencing maldistribution.
if do this, + this = X years - Segmented assimilation
- diverse poss pathways + outcomes in th process of adaption
- 3 paths of (segmented) assimilation
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1 adopt mainstream culture (what euros did)
2 underclass assimilation (poor immigrants live in poor communities, get poor traits)
3 maintaining ethnice values (possible in enclaves, tight families) - pathway trad. taken by imms
- total assimi
- ehtnic enclave
- self supportin community. almost onl one group
- factors affectin the assimi process
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1 location of settlement (montana v bronx)
2 economy/job market
3 policies on immigration - + & - consequences of each path of assimi
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1 ADOPT MAINSTREAMM CULTURE
+ sees advancement quickly
- conflict w/ group->anxiety/resentment
2 UNDERCLASS ASSIMILATION
+ some sort of identity comfort
- low level of SES/Pol advance
- stigmaed by greater society
3 MAINTAINING NATIVE ETHNIC VALUES
+ degree of SES/Pol advance
(b/c pooled resources)
+ less discrimination
+ strong norms/values for kids
+ strong social network
+ collective supervision
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- tendency for conflict/anxity as kids
- lack of diversity of skills/resources
- less incentive to learn english -
2 negatives of ;
[2] UNDERCLASS ASSIMILATION -
- low level of SES/Pol advance
- stigmaed by greater society -
5 positives of :
[3] MAINTAINING ETHNIC VALUES -
+ degree of SES/Pol advance
(b/c pooled resources)
+ less discrimination
+ strong norms/values for kids
+ strong social network
+ collective supervision -
5 negativesof :
[3] MAINTAINING ETHNIC VALUES -
- tendency for conflict/anxity as kids
- lack of diversity of skills/resources
- less incentive to learn english -
1 postives of:
[2] UNDERCLASS ASSIMILATION - + some sort of identity comfort
- [1] ADOPT MAINSTREAM CULTURE
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+ sees advancement quickly
- conflict w/ group->anxiety/resentment - discrim in crim justince
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1 Arrest
DWB – 1992 Maryland CLU vs. MDPD
2 Court
low ses =NO bail$
3 Charging
26% white males fully prosecuted, 39% of Black males fully prosecuted
4 Sentencing
(85%) Hispanics & (78%) Blacks more likely to be incarcerated and for longer time than whites (72%)
Sentencing guidelines takes some of the subjectiveness out of sentencing - Attribution Theory
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Humans make decisions with bounded rationality – guess at what’s going to happen
So, judges fall back on stereotypes and statistical discrimination