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What is concentrated poverty policing?

Sending officers that make a lot of arrests into poverty areas, and send officers that do not make many arrests into affluent neighborhoods

Who was the first european scientist, philosopher, and naturalist to separate humans into distinct races?

Francois Borne

What court case found the seizure of DNA saying it was unusual search and seizure? What was the result?

Maryland v King


Ruled is was okay, not unusual search and seizure

What is the largest ethnic group in the US?

Latinos/Mexicans, 17%

What is the second largest ethnic group?

African Americans, 13%

What is the third largest ethnic group?

Asians

What racial/ethnic group has the highest level of education?

Asians

Can DNA be used to identify the race of an offender?

Yes

Which act restricted the number of italians coming into the country?

Immigration Act of 1924

What act allowed mexicans to come into the united states to work in agriculture in 1992?

Bracero Program

What asian group had the largest population in the United States?

Chinese

What is the name of the act that was used to catch and return runaway slaves?

Fugitive Slave Act - 1793

What is the term that has been suggested to replace the word minority?

People of color

What did the indian removal act of 1830 require native americans to do?

Move west of the mississippi

During the process of assimilation were the native americans forced to abandon most of their culture?

Yes

What were the 2 countered that signed the treaty to end the international slave trade? What was the same of the treaty?

America & Britain, Treaty of Ghent

What was the supreme court case that legalized segregation and separate but equal?

Brown v Board of Education

Which immigration group increased substantially during the 1980's?

Asian/Chinese

Are all Arab americans muslims?

No

Approximately how long ago did the native americans arrive in america?

30,000 years ago

What is the primary source of arrest statistics?

UCR - Uniform Crime Report

In 1933 when the UCR was first developed, what racial category was not included?

Native Americans

What act requires the FBI to collect data on crimes?

1990 Hate Crime Statistics Act

Is the National Incident Based Reporting System the primary source of into on victims of crime in the US?

No, the National Crime Victimization survey is

What group has the highest crime victimization rates?

Native Americans

What martial status has the highest violent crime victimization rates?

Divorced

Did the act of lynching contribute to racial inequality in America?

Yes

Did the 2013 UCR show that black arrests have increased or decreased?

Decreased

What racial/ethnic group's arrest rates are increasing?

Native Americans

Which racial/ethnic group is arrested for the most crime in the US?

Whites

Which group is the target for the largest share of hate crimes in the US?

African Americans

Does the UCR capture multiple offenses that occur during one criminal event?

No, only takes the most serious offense

What instrument provides us with the best representation of crime in the US?

The National Crime Victimization Survery

Are most hate crime against property or person?

Person

Which racial/ethnic group is least likely to be a victim of hate crimes?

Asians

Where do most hate crime incidents occur?

Victims residence

What is the percentage of violent victimizations reported to the police?

Less than 50%

What were slave codes?

Prescribed social boundaries for slaves where they could go, activities they could engage in, etc

What was the compromise of 1850?

States could decide whether they wanted to be a slave state or free state

What system was put in place due to the criticisms of the UCR?

National Incident Based Reporting System

What is wrong with using the census as a reporting system?

Its only every 10 years, some people never receive the forms, some don't respond

What group has the second highest victimization rates?

African Americans

Who created the first taxonomy of race?

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

What were the 5 races Blumenbach categorized?

Causasian, Ethiopian, Mongolian, American (Native), Malayan

Are the majority of americans neither arrested nor victimized?

Yes

What is a hate crime?

Whenever the facts indicate actions by an offender are motivated by bias against certain individuals or groups

What categories were first in the UCR in 1933?

White, Blacks, Others

What is the Inferiority precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Presume, preserve, protect, and defend the ideal of the superiority of whites and the interiority of blacks

What is the Property precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Define the slave as the masters property, maximize the masters economic interest, disregard the humanity the slave except when it serves the manners interest, and deny slaves the fruits of their labor

What is the Powerlessness precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Keep blacks - whether slave or free - as powerlessness as possible to they will be completely submissive. Utilize government and violence to ensure submissiveness as blacks

What is the Racial purity precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Always preserve white male sexual dominance. Tolerate sex between white men and black women punish severely white women with non-white men

What is the Manumission and free blacks precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Limit and discourage manumission, minimize number of free blacks in state, keep them as close to slavery as possible

What is the Family precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Destroy unity of black family, deny slaves right of marriage

What is the education and culture precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Deny blacks any education, deny knowledge of their culture, make it a crime to those who teach blacks

What is the religion precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Slaves can't practice their own religions, or worship with other blacks. Encourage slaves to adopt religion of white master, teach them that god will reward the slave who obeys his master

What is the liberty - resistance precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Limit blacks opportunity to resist, rebel or flee. Curtail their freedom of movement, association, and freedom of expression. Deny right to vote

What is the By any means possible precept of American Slavery Jurisprudence?

Support all measure that maximize profitability of slavery and that legitimate racism.