1. Briefly define “master status”.
2. In our society, is there really a “master status”? Briefly explain why or why not.
3. Who coined the phrase “victimology”, and how is this term defined in Barak’s Chapter 7?
4. Name and explain the three key conceptual features that distinguish multiracial feminism from other feminist perspectives.
5. How are policies and their resulting court decisions racialized, gendered, and premised on class?
6. How is the relationship between restorative and indigenous justice comparable to that of feminist and anti-racist groups?
7. What is the relationship between class, race/ethnicity, gender, their intersectionality and victimization?
8. Explain the argument that the Native American and African American communities are/were victims of American genocide in some ways.
9. Explain “selective enforcement” of the law as explained by either Barak or Reiman and Leighton.
10. What are some factors that allow it to remain possible for the poor to continue to get prison and receive the brunt of the meted out punishments in the United States? Be sure to use support from Barak’s chapter 9 and Reiman’s chapter 3.
