Summary of Christopher Hayes's A Colony in a Nation

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 There are two ways to experience the police in America: as the people you call when there is a problem, or as the people who are called on you. For many, the police are the ones who are called on them.
#2 I was a college student at the time, and I was carrying weed to a Republican convention. I was almost caught, but fortunately nothing bad came out of it. With the advantage of hindsight, I can look back and know that if I had been arrested, it would’ve been no more than an embarrassing hassle.
#3 I have never been to jail or prison, but I have spent a lot of time on the ground reporting on criminal justice and the growing social movement to reform it.
#4 The United States has the most incarcerated citizens in the world, and it has done so for more than four decades. The country’s homicide rate has declined sharply from its peak, but it remains higher than that of any other developed democracy.

Sujets

• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Discrimination

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822512597
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Christopher Hayes's A Colony in a Nation
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There are two ways to experience the police in America: as the people you call when there is a problem, or as the people who are called on you. For many, the police are the ones who are called on them.

#2

I was a college student at the time, and I was carrying weed to a Republican convention. I was almost caught, but fortunately nothing bad came out of it. With the advantage of hindsight, I can look back and know that if I had been arrested, it would’ve been no more than an embarrassing hassle.

#3

I have never been to jail or prison, but I have spent a lot of time on the ground reporting on criminal justice and the growing social movement to reform it.

#4

The United States has the most incarcerated citizens in the world, and it has done so for more than four decades. The country’s homicide rate has declined sharply from its peak, but it remains higher than that of any other developed democracy.

#5

The American prison system dates back to the 1960s, when three events took place that shaped the politics of how and upon whom we enforce law. The first was the success of the civil rights movement, which produced intense, even violent white backlash and resentment at the social order being unmade. The second was a crime rate increase that would last several decades. The third was the rise in street protests.

#6

Nixon made a similar argument in 1968, that crime was not going to be the future of America, and that order had to be restored.

#7

The media’s portrayal of these issues, and how they are framed, can drastically influence how the public feels about them.

#8

Nixon identified the problem America faced in 1968 as a lack of order. He promised a new policy for peace and progress and justice at home, and vowed that his new attorney general would be an active belligerent against the loan sharks and numbers racketeers that rob the urban poor in cities.