11.8 Application and Discussion: Questions and Key Terms
Application and Discussion questions are intended to be used for student reflection and response; in class discussions or online forum discussions.
Key terms are needed to understand the concepts in this chapter and will appear in other chapters in the text.
11.8.1 Reflective Questions
- How is justice typically defined? How does it apply to families in the United States?
- How do race, ethnicity, gender, immigration, and socioeconomic status intersect to create differing experiences with justice?
- What do the founding documents of our country tell us about justice?
- Which chapters by the student authors (Heather Denherder, Alexis Castenada-Perez, Christopher Byers, and Carla Medel) can you relate to your own life or observations?
- In what ways has your family experienced justice and injustice? What topics would you add to this chapter?
11.8.2 Key Terms
These terms are needed to understand the concepts in this chapter and will appear in other chapters in the text.
- Criminalization: the act of making an activity or person illegal by making their activity a criminal offense.
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): a U.S. immigration policy that allows individuals who arrived in the United States as children to remain and work in the country for a renewable period of two years. This policy has been legalized and implemented inconsistently in the 2000s.
- implicit bias: an unconscious tendency to favor one person, group, or point of view over another usually based on social characteristics such as gender, sexuality, race or socioeconomic status.
- incarceration: being confined within a prison or jail.
- militarization: the process of preparing for war or another conflict; can refer to the transformation of a civilian agency becoming more like a military operation.
- substance use disorder (SUD): a disease that affects the brain and includes the uncontrolled use of something despite harmful consequences (sometimes called substance abuse).
11.8.1 Licenses and Attributions for Application and Discussion: Questions and Key Terms
11.8.1.1 Open Content, Original
“Application and Discussion: Questions and Key Terms” by Elizabeth B. Pearce is licensed under CC BY 4.0.