Study Site for Race and Crime, Second Edition

Shaun L. Gabbidon and Helen Taylor Greene


Chapter Resources

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Chapter 1: Overview of Race and Crime

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1. Mixed Race America (website)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/

2. The New Americans (website)

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/foreducators_lesson_plan_11.html

3. Native Americans (website)

http://www.nativeamericans.com/

4. The Jewish Americans (website)

http://www.pbs.org/jewishamericans/

5. African American Lives 2 (website)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/profiles/joyner.html

6. Searching for Asian American (website)

http://www.pbs.org/searching/

Chapter 2: Extent of Crime and Victimization

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1. Illinois: Not in Our State (video)

http://www.pbs.org/niot/video/peoria56.html

2. Legacy of Lynching (website)

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11232007/profile2.html

Chapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Crime

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1. From Abuse to Violence: Psychophysiological Consequences of Maltreatment (article)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/little/readings/lewis.html

2. Cesare Lombroso (wikipedia article)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso

3. Race, Poverty, and the Inner City – 40 years later (article)

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2008/03/race_poverty_and_the_inner_cit_1.html

4. Eugenics Archive

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/

Chapter 4: Policing

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1. Race & Policing (website)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/race/

2. Race, Rap, and the L.A.P.D. (article)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/race/racerap.html

Chapter 5: Courts

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1. Pretrial Release and Detention Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Justice website)

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pretrial.htm

Chapter 6: Sentencing

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1. Is the System Racially Biased? (article)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/juvenile/bench/race.html

2. [Online News Hour] Color Blind? (article)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/crack_sentencing_2-26.html

3. Crack the Disparity (Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16eWeGuo-Bg

Chapter 7: The Death Penalty

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1. Cases of Race (article)

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/racetoexecution/casesofrace.html

2. Race to Execution (article & links to 3 videos)

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/racetoexecution/film.html

3. Supreme Court Rules on Lethal Injections (video)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=16042008&seg=1

Chapter 8: Corrections

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1. Desegregating California’s Prisons (video)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/jan-june06/prisons_3-15.html

2. Prison Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Justice website)

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm

3. Characteristics of Jail inmates (U.S. Dept. of Justice website)

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#jail

Chapter 9: Juvenile Justice

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1. Frontline: Juvenile Justice (website with links to stats & the system info)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/juvenile/

2. (5 different videos offered on youth & gangs)

http://pbs-newshour.onstreammedia.com/cgi-bin/visearch?user=pbs-newshour&template=template.html&query=gang+ClipCategory%3AClipCategory%3Ayouth&keywords=gang&category=ClipCategory%3Ayouth&submit.x=12&submit.y=8

3. Gangs, Social Networks and Media Literacy (website)

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2008/04/gangs_social_networks_and_medi_1.html

4. National Youth Gang Center (website)

http://www.iir.com/nygc/