The article by Baumgartner, Grigg, and Mastro (2015) is relevant to the course material because it gives us evidence of systemic racism where it has been studied very little, the death penalty. Their research concluded that those with victims who are white were more likely than those with black victims, to be sentenced to die (Baumgartner, Grigg, & Mastro, 2015). The research itself is important because it adds factual basis and fills the gap to previous research. It supports what Shaw et al. (2015) had concluded in chapter ten of the textbook, which was that the criminal justice system as a whole has targeted minorities for mass incarceration and utilized tactics such as racial profiling. Statistics like those of black males making up
