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Reaction Paper #2 Due Monday, November 27 1. Watch and take notes on A Sentence of Their Own and finish reading Life on the Outside. 2. Considering the effects of race, class, and incarceration on Alan’s as compared to Elaine’s family, do you believe that it is fair that family’s of the incarcerated receive a sentence of their own? Why/Why Not? Putting Race, Class, & Crime into Perspective: Conclusions, Remedies, and Unintended Consequences Study Questions In the conclusion to Race & Crime, why do Gabbidon and Green conclude that any attempt to connect “race” with crime fails to appreciate several fundamental facts? Criminals and Victims? Community Crime Problem? Violent Crimes? Effects of incarceration? Putting Race, Class, & Crime into Perspective: Conclusions, Remedies, and Unintended Consequences (Cont.) Study Questions In the conclusion to Race & Crime, what suggestions do Gabbidon and Green offer for change? Community outreach and support Reevaluation of the criminal law Alternative approaches to dealing with certain offenses Focus on youth Putting Race, Class, & Crime into Perspective: Conclusions, Remedies, and Unintended Consequences (Cont.) Study Questions Why does David Cole conclude that the current law imposes “nearly insurmountable barriers to persons challenging race discrimination at all stages of the criminal justice system, from policing to judging to sentencing”? Forbidding discrimination cases: The “Standing” doctrine (pp.162-165) Limits on suits for damages: “Qualified Immunity” & “knowingly violating the law” The “intentional discrimination” standard in sentencing Beyond “Crime in the Streets”: Can the state ever be held legally accountable for endangering citizens?? Discussion Question: Can a private citizen hold the state responsible for failing to protect one from violence? Even Children? 14th Amendment Due Process of Law: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within it jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”