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Reading Discussion 9

Reading Discussion 9

Q Now that you have become an expert on one dimension of the variations of deviance, we will start to compare and synthesize this academic research in order to draw some more sophisticated and interested conclusions! Go back and review all of the postings on the Article Summaries: Chapter 9. You should be able to gain a pretty solid understanding of each of the articles by reading over the multiple summaries and analyses. Please create a post that answers the following questions: How do these examples help you understand the core ideas of this chapter? How do they connect? What can we learn about our deviance, and how our society shapes deviance from these texts? If you put these three authors in a room with one another (and, obviously, provided snacks to avoid them getting hangry), what do you think they would say to one another? Why? Please provide at least two substantial comments on your classmates' responses that seek to deepen the analysis or provide some other kind of connection. Try looking for answers that challenge what you thought before or make you think of something new! Your initial post and comments have the same due date.

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The article The Convict-Lease System in the South talks about the South's system that wanted to start the slavery system again. South continued their slavery system through the prison where there were mostly black prisoners and poor white prisoners. As the prisoners were already considered deviant, it was easy to make them slaves and earn profit. The article Prison Tourism in the Era of Mass Incarceration" shows that museums show the conditions of old prison systems, which were not compassionate about prisoners at all. Both the articles show how prisoners were exploited only because they were already deviant.