Truth Theorists | Different Punishments for the Same Crime | Capital Punishment | Crack Vs. Cocaine Sentencing | Plea and Bail Systems |
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Aristotle
What is the truth theorist who is known for using empirical knowledge to approach truth?
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White
What is the race of the victim that leads to the average longest sentence for the defendant?
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White
What is the race of the victim that affects the outcome for black offenders the most?
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Crack Vs. Cocaine Sentencing
What is the type of drug that has the biggest discrepancies in sentencing?
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White
What is the race that is less likely to enter into a guilty plea?
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Aristotle
Who is the truth theorist who emphasizes essence?
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14th amendment
What is the amendment that makes racial bias in sentencing difficult to challenge?
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35%
What is the percentage of people executed on death row who are black(black people make up 12% of the population in the US?
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Richard Nixon
What is the president who initiated the War on Drugs?
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43.5%
What is the percent of explainable discrepancies in sentencing that pretrial conditions are responsible for?
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Colonial Origins
What is the time period Michael Dyson contends that we must go back to in order to understand truth?
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19.1%
What is the average percentage of how much longer black offenders serve than white offenders?
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Implicit Bias
What is it called when the judge may not consciously sentence a person because they’re black but race plays a role in their decision?
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Black
What is the race that makes up 80-90 percent of drug offenders?
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Cash-only bail
What is the name of the bail system that contributes 10% of 13% of Black-White disparities in criminal sentencing?
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Plato
What is the truth theorist who emphasizes that we cannot assume and must go back to frame questions and create connections?
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McCleskey vs Kemp
What is the name of the Supreme Court case that prevents action against discrimination in sentencing?
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82%
What is the percentage of the people convicted on death row where the victim was white?
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Lowered the ratio for Crack vs Cocaine sentencing from 100:1 to 18:1
What is it that the Fair Sentencing Act passed in 2010 did?
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Youth
What is the age demographic where the plea and bail systems have the most detrimental effect? Youth, middle-age, or elders?
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Plato
What is the truth theorist who discusses the Allegory of the Cave?
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Admit they made their decision out of racial animosity
What is the action the judge or jury must take in order to prove there was racial discrimination involved in sentencing?
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Nathaniel Woods
What is the name of the Black man from Alabama who was sentenced to death even though he never shot his gun?
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100:1
What is the ratio for the sentence punishment on the same amount of the drug for crack vs cocaine?
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Aristotelian Approach
What is the truth theorist approach we use to look past neutral legislation such as cash-only bail and get to the essence?
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