This discussion focuses on topics addressed in several chapters of your text - the death penalty and discrimination. Although first discussed inthe death penalty is also discussed in Rather than thinking in rigid terms about reading assignments, please use you're textbook as a resource. After reading the text and watching the video, Injustice for Blacks in Alabama, respond to each of the following questions:
Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required material and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.
- What do you think best explains high incarceration rates for Blacks compared to their percent of the general population?
- What do you think explains high incarceration rates for Blacks on death row?
- Is institutionalized racism to blame for these disparate rates? Please explain.
- Are genuinely high rates of Black crime to blame? Why or why not?
- What other factors explain the high incarceration rates for Black men?
- How can this problem be solved?