3) If Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim were sitting beside Steve Bogira in Courtroom 302 for the year spent observing the activities associated with Judge Locallo’s docket, Marx and Durkheim would not be too happy with Locallo. Marx would be upset on how the system is working because it looks like it is created to keep the minority population behind the bars. Marx would think that our current system is created to separate the wealthy from the poor or the white from the black. For example, in the book, Courtroom 302, “All-white juries …were apt to convict blacks and acquit whites on similar evidence, and would convict white on lesser charges when they convicted them at all” (67). Marx would say that there is corruption in the system because there
