1. The main ideas in Chapter 7, pages 186–196,  and in the article by Angela Davis, "Masked Racism"
   
   What you will need to know from these readings:
   a. what Zimbardo's experiment teaches about the dehumanizing effects of the prison environment
   b. the relationship of the increase in the prison population to corporate profits and mass media coverage of crime
   c. what Davis calls the "magic" solution to unemployment
   d. Davis's view on the ways that big business profits from mass incarceration, especially of black men
   e. the association that many white people make between criminality and race 

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2. Definitions and examples of the following concepts:

prison industrial complex

social control

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