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Your final exam will take place from May 18th to May 21st on Blackboard.
You will see these exact questions on the exam. They would be grouped, and you will answer 1 question per group, picked randomly (by Bb). Your essays should be around 300-400 words and contain citations (remember to CITE the sources, uncited answers will get 0).
The exam will be open-book (you can use study materials) but you would need to cite your sources when preparing your answers. Your final exam questions are below:
- What is sociological imagination, according to C. Wright Mills (1959)? Why is it important to employ sociological imagination while studying criminal justice in an urban community? [Week 1 unit]
- What efforts should we undertake to humanize our language when we study criminal justice? Why is it important to see people before the labels? [Humanizing language unit]
- What are the problems Jane Jacobs sees with the twentieth-century approach to urban planning in the United States? What is a sidewalk, according to Jacobs? [Week 2 unit]
- Why does studying the spatial concentration of incarceration matter? What are the consequences of the spatial concentration of mass incarceration in urban communities? [Week 7 unit]
- What influence has Broken Windows Theory had on urban communities? What have been the consequences of large-scale adoptions of the theory and zero-tolerance policies in these communities? [Week 6 unit]
- According to William Julius Wilson, how do factors such as deindustrialization, globalization, suburbanization, and discrimination affect inner-city communities? [Week 5 Unit]
- What does Victor Rios define as criminalization? What are the consequences of criminalization of Black and Latino youth in urban communities? [Victor Rios, Punished]
- What type of research did Victor Rison employ to study the community in Oakland? What were the advantages of the chosen method? What were the disadvantages of such a method? [Victor Rios, Punished]
- Rios uses the term labeling hype to discuss how labels serve to hypercriminalize and marginalize the Black and Latino youths. What role do the schools play in perpetuating labels? What are the consequences of labeling hype? [Victor Rios, Punished]
- What is redlining and how it had impacted communities in the United States? How can we remedy redlining? Richard Rothstein argues that the federal government has a constitutional responsibility to address the issues of segregation, even positing the use of federal funds to desegregate neighborhoods through radical housing subsidies. What are the potential consequences (both positive and negative) for such actions? [Week 12 Unit]
- How does gentrification impact urban communities? What are the consequences of gentrification, both positive and negative consequences? [Week 11 unit]
- Why do greening efforts (planting trees, mowing grass, creating community gardens, and overall neighborhood beautification) result in a decrease in criminal behavior? Are you convinced that a greener neighborhood could result in a decrease in crime in your community? [Week 13 unit]
