Crime and Justice

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Learning Objectives

Chapter 3

• Explain the difference between rights that exist de jure and those which exist de facto.
• Describe why the Constitution has been referred to as “Sleeping Beauty.”
• Show how the Scottsboro case is an illustration of the “awakening of sleeping beauty.”
• Explain the legacy of under-protection and over-enforcement of the law for African Americans.
• Describe the pattern of under-enforcement of the law in the area of male violence against women.
• Identify at least two significant reforms in the criminalization of male violence.
• Present the historical changes to the laws of rape and intimate violence.
• Explain the response of the police and courts to violence against women.
• Describe the role of gender in relation to both crime and victimization.