Watch Michelle Alexander’s Ted Talk book “The New Jim Crow” aims to stimulate a conversation about the criminal justice system’s role in creating and perpetuating racial hierarchy (or a racial caste-like system) in the United States. She raises compelling arguments about institutional racism, mass incarceration and felon disenfranchisement in the U.S. In this week’s discussion, discuss your own thoughts on this piece. Do you agree or disagree? In your view, what are some of the problems with incarceration as the primary sentence? What alternatives would you recommend in lieu of incarceration? What sentencing philosophy supports your favorite alternative?
For this week’s discussion assignment, choose one of the options below. Please indicate the option you chose in the title of your discussion post. Watch
For this week’s discussion assignment, choose one of the options below. Please indicate the option you chose in the title of your discussion post. Watch the PBS video The Journal: Justice For Sale hosted by Bill Moyers at Discuss whether judicial election, a system practiced in many states, has tainted judges’ ability