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)
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)
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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)