1. M. Alexander claims that the main explanation of why so many people are sent to jail in the U.S. today is deeply wrong. Explain her argument by referring to the various examples she mentions to backup her point. (see p. 1-2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In her argument she explains that most people sent to jail are due to unfair reasoning. Within the first couple of paragraphs she explains how during the war on drugs many poor communities were being targeted with drugs creating a propaganda that backed up the war on drugs. Even though crack came out before the war .. After the war started then they targeted these communities as stated below “A few years after the drug war was declared, crack began to spread rapidly in the poor black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and later emerged in cities across the country” And this is around the mid 1960s during those segregated periods of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Why is it that racial disparities in the rates of incarceration \u201ccannot be explained by rates of drug crimes\u201d? At the time of when President Reagan declared his war on drugs in 1982, drug crime was on the decline it was not on the rise. So they cant explain anything because the rates were declining and also the timing of the war was around intense racist periods of time so that could also be a community to target. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. How do you understand the phrase: \u201cthe American penal system has emerged as a system of social control unparalleled in world history.\u201d? I understand it by looking at the words and defining them all together. Firstly social control is a concept within the disciplines of the social sciences. Social control is described as a certain set of rules and standards in society that keep individuals bound to conventional standards as well as to the use of formalized mechanisms. America has social control on several groups of people and they are all different rules or mechanisms. The war was based off of nonviolent offenders and regular drug defenders and that war created a penal system for the United states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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