Summarizing, comparing and analyzing the reasons for mass incarceration in America given by the authors in these two works using APA in-text citation format: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in...

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Table of Contents
Summary of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness    3
Summary of How Changes in American Culture Triggered Hyper-Incarceration: Variations on the Tazian View    3
Comparison    4
Analysis    6
References    8
Summary of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michael Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness reflects the conversation about racial discrimination by analyzing the past events in the American history. The high incarceration rate in US is not accidental and this it has become a skillful system, which perpetuates racial stratification with the exclusion of black and extending its consequences (Tucker, 2012).
In the beginning, the history of state affairs highlights advancement and oppression of blacks. It shows how some freedom of blacks threatened the whites and ultimately stops blacks from achieving equality with them. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan used race as the subtext of their politicking and encouraged disproportionate focus on blacks. Another argument given by the author was on the war of drugs.
The law authorizes police to investigate, pretext stops, interrogate and search people to whom it thinks involve in drugs. This helped them to target African and Latino communities by allowing independence to white to consume the same. African American is arrested in disproportionate numbers and the misrepresentation of their case starts in the legal system. Under the New Jim Crow race has a different expression.
It advocates that not only the explicit racial views are responsible but also the system is also equally neutral towards trapping of blacks in mass incarceration. It is one of the finest works of the author and crucial for those who are studying criminal justice system as the conveyed message catch our nerves and disturb them to the core.
Summary of How Changes in American Culture Triggered Hyper-Incarceration: Variations on the Tazian View
Christopher Slobogin used the Professor Taslitz’s work and extended his research on the subject of incarceration in US. It was believed that populism and deliberative democracy were the main reason behind incarceration but apart from that, there are other reasons too. When the policies of America were compared with other Western countries, no major difference in the direction of incarceration was found.
Since 1960, it is increasing in noticeable percentage and the prisoners who are serving life sentences have also increased. US hold high penalty structure while in many European countries the capital punishment is banned. Other reason is as compared to other countries the...