Deck 16: Minorities and Corrections

Question 1

In some parts of the country, minority group members were more likely to be incarcerated when they were _____, or sentenced for periods that were longer than their White brothers and sisters.

A) Convicted of violent crimes
B) Convicted of property crimes
C) Innocent
D) Convicted of embezzlement

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Ethnic groups:

A) are based on biology.
B) result in a variation of skin and other features.
C) refer to the skin color and features of a group of people.
D) will often have a distinct language, as well as distinct values, religion, history, and traditions.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Often discrimination is linked in law to classes of people distinguished by

A) age
B) nationality
C) income
D) all of these

Answer 3

D

Question 4

When dealing with adjustment to prison, Hassine (2009), a writer and inmate doing life since 1980, commented that:

A) race has not had any impact on his adjustment to prison life.
B) race has only been a small part of what he has had to deal with while inside prison.
C) race was an integral part of the prison life he has and does experience.
D) race played an important role only to minority groups in prisons, not White inmates.

Question 5

Which of the following Articles of the U.S. Constitution caused fugitive slabs to be returned to the slave owner?

A) I
B) II
C) III
D) IV

Question 6

Which of the following types of crimes would more than likely fall under tribal jurisdiction?

A) petty theft
B) murder
C) arson
D) manslaughter

Question 7

After the changing of federal law in 2010, sentences for crack versus powder cocaine was reduced from 100 to 1 to

A) 10 to 1
B) 18 to 1
C) 50 to 1
D) 55 to 1

Question 8

According Wolff et al. (2008), _____ were more likely to report victimization by other inmates than by staff.

A) African Americans
B) non-Hispanic whites
C) Hispanics
D) Asian Americans

Question 9

According to the text, police officers tend to stop

A) older vehicles.
B) red cars.
C) trucks.
D) 2-door cars.

Question 10

The rhetoric for the modern drug war was initiated by President

A) Reagan
B) Johnson
C) Carter
D) Nixon

Question 11

Jim Crow laws were devised to prevent _____ from fully participating in social, economic, and civic life.

A) African Americans
B) Whites
C) Asian Americans
D) Hispanics

Question 12

Upward mobility can be hampered by which of the following?

A) poor nutrition
B) limited access to health care
C) parents who are absent and neglectful
D) all of these

Question 13

Chinese and Japanese immigrants were heavily involved in which of the following pioneer communities?

A) mining and agriculture
B) construction
C) transportation
D) fishing and hunting

Question 14

_____ labor was crucial to the construction of the first transcontinental railroad.

A) Native American
B) Chinese labor
C) Hispanic labor
D) African American labor

Question 15

The Chinese engaged in professions, such as

A) restaurants
B) education
C) medicine
D) military

Question 16

Chinese immigrants were through to be corrupting the white population by spreading the use of _____.

A) marijuana
B) crack cocaine
C) opium
D) alcohol

Question 17

Federal policy regarding American Indian tribes has shifted over time from efforts

A) to segregate them from white communities
B) to integrate tribal members into the larger society
C) to respect their identity and cultures
D) all of these

Question 18

In some parts of the country, minority group members were more likely to be sentenced if they were innocent than that of their White brothers.

Question 19

Hispanic refers to non-Asians.

Question 20

Native Americans were given their name by our founding fathers.

Question 21

Sentences for crack cocaine are now proportionate to sentences for powder cocaine.

Question 22

Define Hispanic.

Question 23

Why were Japanese Americans placed in internment camps during WWII?

Question 24

Who initiated the war on drug legislation?

Question 25

Define driving while black or brown (DWB).

Question 26

How are convictions for crack versus powdered cocaine treated when it comes to sentencing?

Question 27

What enabled the increase in employment of minorities and women in corrections?

Question 28

Do you believe the criminal justice system is racist? Why or why not?

Question 29

Describe what happened to the Native Americans following Columbus's arrival and history of reservations.

Question 30

Discuss the history of Mexican Americans in the United States and the current racial criminal justice and political issues they face.

Question 31

What is the connection between class and race/ethnicity. Do you believe that its intersection has had negative impacts on minorities in this country?