class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # SOC 2220 Discussion Section ## Week 7 ### Xuewen Yan ### 2020-10-16 --- # Announcements - Quiz starting from 3pm Friday --- # Concept review - Differential effects vs differential treatment -- - In defining racial discrimination, the National Research Council differentiates between differential treatment and differential effects, creating a two-part definition (Blank, Dabady, and Citro 2004, 39-40). + (1) differential treatment on the basis of race that disadvantages a racial group (differential treatment) + (2) treatment on the basis of inadequately justified factors other than race that disadvantages a racial group (differential effect)" --- # Activity 1: Racism and Criminal Justice Watch this video by Tanya Golash-Boza [https://vimeo.com/315027537](https://vimeo.com/315027537) Questions: - What is institutional racism? How does it differ from individual racism? Draw on your own understanding, the lecture, and the video by Golash-Boza. - In what ways does institutional racism play out in the context of criminal justice? Draw on the video, and your knowledge from the readings (Krieger 2015; Wakefield and Uggen 2010), and give examples. --- # Activity 1: Racism and Criminal Justice - **Institutional racism** exists when there are statuses, practices, and laws that have a disparate or unequal impact. - **Individual racism** refers to the bigotry of individual people and their prejudicial actions against specific races - Examples of institutional racism? -- + The Jim Crow laws, redlining in housing, racial profiling in policing --- # Activity 2: Solutions to Problems with the Criminal Justice System How can we employ varying strategies to reduce racial discrimination in the criminal justice system or post-incarceration? - You can draw on pages 38-41 of Pager (2008) or use your own observations - You may think in terms of legal, economic, institutional, and technological solutions. --- # Debriefing: Ghosts in the Schoolyard - What is the overall message of the book (I.e. school closures and racism) - Feelings on the Ewing lecture? - For the quiz: Read the appendix and acknowledgements for the book