READING ASSIGNMENT #5-CHAPTER 9 & 10
READING ASSIGNMENT #5-CHAPTER 9: CORRECTIONS IN AMERICA: A PORTRAIT IN COLOR & CHAPTER 10: MINORITY YOUTH AND CRIME: MINORITY YOUTH IN COURT
Date Due: APRIL 11, 2026
Possible Points: 100
Project Duration: 6- 8 hours
Deliverable Length: 2-3 pages
Please respond to ONE of the questions from each chapter. Each response should be 300 words or more. Your responses should be in your own words submitted via Turnitin thru canvas. Any assignment that shows signs of plagiarism or any tool of cheating will receive a “Zero”.
Discussion Questions
What is your position on allowing correctional inmates access to college courses while in prison? How about access to financial aid for college after the sentence is complete? Think of the cost of prison as about $30,000 a year and consider how education can lead to rehabilitation.
Some cities are exploring paying criminals not to re-offend. Explore Richmond, California, and Washington, DC, as examples. Would you support a program in your city or any city that would apply offenders not to re-offend? Justify your answer.
Do you think prison gang formation is influenced mostly by external forces and the gang affiliation offenders bring to prison from the street or by the internal forces of the prison environment, such as racial composition? What arguments can you offer to support your position?
Should post-prison reintegration programs be race-neutral? Were the factors that lead to offending and incarceration race-neutral? In what ways should issues of race and ethnicity be considered when creating policies to facilitate inmate readjustment to society upon release?
CHAPTER 10
The mayor of St. Louis has appointed you to a commission whose task it is to develop policy recommendations to ameliorate the high rate of violence against young girls in that citys disadvantaged neighborhoods/schools. What would you propose?
Why is there greater potential for racial discrimination in the juvenile justice system than in the adult justice system?
There is a common perception that a typical juvenile offender is a person of color. Is this an accurate perception? Justify your answer.
The U.S. Supreme Court has recently ruled that mandatory life without the possibility of parole sentences violates the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. Read the courts opinion in Miller v. Alabama (https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/10-9646) and summarize the courts rationale for its ruling. Do you agree or disagree with the courts rationale in this case? Why?
What are the dangers inherent in allowing police to use gang databases in investigating crimes?
Book required
Walker, S., Spohn, C., & DeLone, M. (2018). The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in
America, 6th edition. Cengage Learning. ISBN
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