13th Amendment Project

Crime and Punishment / 13th Amendment Group Project

Crime and Punishment

Task:
In groups of 2-3 you are to design a display that examines the issues related to Crime and Punishment in the Black Community.
You are to list and detail the issues examined in class that expose both sides of the Crime and Punishment debate, viewing the situation as both victim and perpetrator.

Your display must answer the following questions:
1) Who is ultimately responsible for issues related to Crime and Punishment in the Black Community?
2) How accountable should the Black Community be for dealing with Crime and Punishment?
3) How does the 'No Snitch' rule impact the Black community? Is it positive or negative, or both?
4)Design a plan that your group feels would solve the issues of Crime and Punishment with in the Black Community.

You must come up with the content for your display before attempting to create it.
You must create a lay-out for the display before attempting to create it.
This is the only time of the year that I am allowing you to use bristle board, or display board.
This is not a digital display.

The 13th Amendment

13th

Storyline

13th is a 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay. The film explores the "intersection of race, justice and mass incarceration in the United States;" it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which freed the slaves and prohibited slavery (unless as punishment for a crime).

The documentary opens with an audio clip of former President Barack Obama stating that the US has five percent of the world's population but twenty-five percent of the world's prisoners. DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated in practices since the end of the American Civil War through such actions as criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weigh more heavily on minority communities and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration of people of color in the United States. She examines the prison-industrial complex and the emerging detention-industrial complex, demonstrating how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations.

13th has garnered acclaim from film critics. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards

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