Mini Paper 1 Topic: Discuss if there is a
relationship between race, ethnicity and criminal offending?
Mini Paper 2 Topic: Discuss how seminal
Supreme Court cases have impacted racial and ethnic
minorities
involved in the criminal justice system.
Mini Paper 3 Topic: Discuss how U.S. laws have shaped the ways
that various racial groups have
Experienced the
criminal justice system.
Mini Paper 4 Topic: What influence, if any,
does the media have on the perception of race and crime?
Mini Paper 5 Topic: Are Blacks more violent
when compared to members from other racial and ethnic
groups?
Mini Paper 6 Topic: Discuss racial profiling
and its impact on various racial groups.
Mini Paper 7 Topic: How do political
attitudes and ideas about crime affect disparities in the justice
system? Does our
political system filter attitudes, ideas and political action in ways
that perpetuate
inequality?