Question: What difference does race have on mass

encarceration and why do are colored people looked at more

suspiciously then others.
Bryant, W. (2011). Internalized Racism's Association With African American Male
Youth's Propensity for Violence. Journal of Black Studies, 690-707.
Through this study, Bryant looks at different aspects of the
development of violent males which tends to go in had with being
African American. Through looking within 4 different settings within
a community, he looks at the different type of influence each group
receives from their surrounding areas.
This article would help with the race aspect of my research
question. Through showing what it is that influences young adults to
make the decisions that they do, we see the idea of nature vs
nurture come to life.

Cutler, B. (2008). Encyclopedia of psychology & law. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE
Publications.
Within Cutlers Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, different
ideas are shown where race and age influence the way jurors and
judges look towards you. The portion that would be most beneficial
for this paper is the section on Racial Bias and the Death Penalty
written by Brooke Butler. Throughout this piece she shares on what
the things are that we look at differently in humans of color.

This piece would be helpful within the ideas that question the value
of life within the research piece. Through the ideas that the color of
your skin has a determining factor on whether you live or die is
something Americans would find interesting.

Dowd, N. (2015). A new juvenile justice system: Total reform for a broken
system. NYU Press.
Through her new book, Dowd shares a new way of looking at our justice
system and various ways juveniles would benefit from a new point of view.
She shares that often the rights of juvenilles are looked over by adults who
think they are making a better decision for them, but situations may not
always work out in such a way.

This piece would help further the argument that juveniles are judged not
only on their crime but also on assumptions made due to the observation
which they made on the individual based on preconceived notions.

Gallagher, C. (n.d.). Researching Race, Reproducing Racism. GRED Revs. of

Educ., Pedagogy, & Cultural Stud. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural
Studies, 165-191.
Gallagher in this piece shares the ways in which racism and ideas about
race are not recreated every year, but more so are made up by past

generations and are passed on. Through this, we find that often reproduce
racism instead of rebirthing it. Often people follow the ideas without even
having a reasoning behind it.
This argument would help add to the idea that people are judged for their
outcome before they even know a single word about them. Furthermore,
the ideas that they made up about them are things which are not thought
of on their own, but by those before them and just shared with others.

Hedges, C. (2012, December 1). Why Mass Incarceration Defines Us as a

Society. Retrieved September 11, 2015.

Mitchell, T., Haw, R., Pfeifer, J., & Meissner, C. (n.d.). Racial Bias In Mock Juror
Decision-Making: A Meta-Analytic Review Of Defendant Treatment. Law and
Human Behavior, 621-637.