READING ASSIGNMENT #2 CHAPTERS 3: RACE, ETHNICITY, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND CRIME & CHAPTERS 4: JUSTICE ON THE STREET? The Police and People of Color
Chapters 3 & 4
Date Due: FEBRUARY 14, 2026
Possible Points: 100
Project Duration: 5-6 hours
Please respond to ONE of the questions from each chapter with 300 words each . Each response should be 300 words or more. Your responses should be in your own words. Any assignment that shows signs of plagiarism or any tool of cheating will receive a “Zero”.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 3
1. Do you agree with the Kerner Commissions conclusion that we are moving toward two societies, one black [and] one white? Explain your answer.
2. What is meant by the concepts of social capital and cultural capital? How do they affect criminal behavior?
3. What has been the impact of the civil rights movement on social and economic conditions that affect crime and criminal justice?
4. Which theory of crime do you think best explains the prevalence of crime in the United States?
CHAPTER 4
1. What is meant by a contextual approach to examining policing, race, and ethnicity?
2. How is policing in Native American communities different from policing in the rest of the United States?
3. This book argues that some significant progress has been made in controlling police use of deadly force. What is that evidence? Do you find it persuasive? Why or why not?
4. Discuss how traffic stops can be more or less intrusive, and how the difference affects communities of color.
Required Textbook: The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America
Author(s): Walker, S., Spohn, C., & DeLone, M.
Publisher: Cengage Learning, US.
Edition: 6th/Latest
ISBN: 139780534624460
Requirements: 750
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