Use information below: Gabbidon and Greene: Chapter 8 Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow Chapter 4, pp. 140-165; Chapters 5 and 6 Joel Dyer in The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime (Westview Press 2000), pp. 16-17 Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, addressing the American Bar Association, Aug. 9, 2003 Cite an historical factor (different from one given by any other student) that has led to a disproportionate representation of racial or ethnic minorities in American prisons. What ostensibly "color-blind" social, political, economic and legal factors make it more likely that prisoners from racial or ethnic minorities who are released will eventually return to jail or prison? How can this be changed? Do you think such measures will be successful? Why or why not? What is meant by the "normalization" of mass incarceration? Why is this something that will be difficult to change? APA and cite sources
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