Local Police Agencies
Your name______________________________________Please address all aspects of the exam thoroughly and to the best of your ability. Work hard to make certain that the statements you make are accurate based on class material. Feel free to consult and cite the textbook in preparing this exam. Whenever you directly quote from orparaphrase you must indicate the citation and page number. You may also consult me and your classmates via the discussion board or email, but the work and writing you turn in must be YOURS alone. You must know the material so that you can be sure that others are not leading your astray.Submit the final exam under the Assignment tool – Final exam. Please read carefully! There are 15 questions!Total = 75 points (15 questions, each question = 5 points)Instructions:-Your final paper must be of at least five (5) pages in length (DOES NOT IN-CLUDE YOUR TITLE AND REFERENCE PAGE), double spaced and 12pt Times New Roman font. Feel free to consult and cite textbook(s), websites and any other forms of medium in preparing this work. Whenever you directly quote from or paraphrase you must indicate the citation and page number.-Your references should be written in either MLA or APA style. This includes the in-text citations as well as the references on a separate page.________________________________________________________Questions:1. Explain how current efforts by local police agencies to enforce federal immigration law has impacted immigrant communities—with a special emphasis on Hispanic communities.2. Explain why the problem of classifying multiethnic and multiracial people has important implications for criminal justice data.3. Explain the difference between income and wealth and explain how cultural and social capital are related to criminal activity.4. Explain some of the steps police departments have taken to increase diversity in hiring and why they were necessary.5. Explain the four contexts of policing and how they help us understand the complex, sometimes contradictory evidence related to police and ra-cial and ethnic minorities.6. Discuss the circumstances of the case and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the right to effective counsel in Williams v. Taylor (2000).7. Explain the various ploys some states have used to circumvent the re-quirement of racial neutrality in the selection of jury pools.8. Discuss the various techniques described in the text for increasing the racial diversity of the jury pool.9. Explain the five explanations for racial disparities in sentencing.10. Is there evidence discrimination in death penalty sentencing today? Be sure to outline the evidence both supporting and opposing your view-point in your response.11. Explain why the U.S. Supreme Court found the post-Furman manda-tory death penalty statutes enacted by North Carolina and Louisiana to be unconstitutional.12. Explain how the racial and ethnic composition of female prison pop-ulations differs from that of male prison populations.13. How have Supreme Court rulings altered the way that prisons re-spond to the issues of racial segregation and prison gangs?14. Explain the controversy surrounding the transfer of juveniles to adult court. Include evidence regarding the consequences of such transfers.15. Explain why, according to Jody Miller’s Getting Played, the social contexts in which African American girls live seem to produce such high levels of violent and sexual victimization. What could policymakers do to change the situation?
