C100 Exam 3 Questions With Correct
Answers
Scholar activism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-challenges the traditional researcher
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role, go and experience rural communities to understand their
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political/ideological positions, challenges popular definitions/misconceptions of
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rural areas, and they use their own research to advocate for social and economic
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change
-Scholars who fall into a more traditional scholarship/researcher role (they
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research, collect and analyze data, write up research)
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John Eason & Ruth Wilson Gilmore - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Challenge the
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traditional role and have set the stage for rural scholars
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-Going to communities, experiencing vulnerabilities, living the experiences,
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working with people in rural communities to understand their positions and
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needs, using their work to advocate for social and economic change
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-Weren't the first rural scholars, but were the first to do first hand research and
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use it in a manner that brought about an actual difference
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-collaborative research |
The Prison Fix - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Bringing prisons to rural communities as a
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solution to fix their economies because they were thought to be stable industries
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Carceral expansion (both physically and ideologically) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Carceral ideologies are those that center and concentrate crime control, criminal
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,justice, law and order, and punishment ideologies within seemingly non-carceral
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institutions |
-Police in schools, welfare compliance officers, specialized courts focused on
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homelessness, etc. | |
|-Ex. Watercolor on a canvas: concentrated in certain places but colors can bleed
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into other areas) → carceral expansion focused on increase in prisons but is seen
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in social institutions that did not initially have social control intentions
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Prison industrial complex - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a set of bureaucratic, political,
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and economic interests that encourage increased spending on imprisonment,
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regardless of the actual need | | | |
Institutional dynamic in which vested economic interests actively promote prison
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construction and a punitive system of criminal justice
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-Politicians exploit crime legislation to secure votes
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| -EX. Reagan Administration- War On Drugs
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-Private companies seek profits by serving or operating prisons
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-Rural town leaders use prisons for economic development
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Prison boom - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Exponential building of prisons from 1970+,
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heightened police presence, arrests, legal institutions, use of plea bargains, more
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courts being developed, more lawyers, etc.
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Prison proliferation (rapid increase) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Exponential building
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of prisons, heightened police presence, arrests, legal institutions, use of plea
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bargains, etc. | |
-Even though crime has generally been declining
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-Mass incarceration and tough on crime policies
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, -Supply of prisoners and demand on prisons
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Economic "anchors" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Rural communities need an industry
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to ground the types of jobs they want to offer to their people
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Economic Growth Model/Solutions/Growth Machine - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Economic growth model: Private investment → Increased jobs and payrolls →
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Larger tax base → Increase revenues/reduced tax rates → improved mix of public
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services and taxes | |
-Localities that attract new residents or businesses increase government revenue,
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|which allows them to provide more services or reduces taxes
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-In addition job growth provides new opportunities for the poor and unemployed
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and it generates competition of workers which can increase wage growth
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-Economic growth solutions force rural communities to rely on big industries that
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may not be sustainable (hence, prison contracts and prison proliferation)
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Solutions:
-government safety net programs and | | | | |
-Localities that attract new residents or businesses increase government revenue,
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|which allows them to provide more services or reduces taxes
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-In addition job growth provides new opportunities for the poor and unemployed
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and it generates competition of workers which can increase wage growth
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Growth machine combined with environmental justice: if a LULU (prison) can save
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us, we should take it to create and sustain growth
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-Classic growth machine models cannot account for undesirable land uses, as
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they frame any economic development as PIMBY
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Answers
Scholar activism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-challenges the traditional researcher
| | | | | | | |
role, go and experience rural communities to understand their
| | | | | | | |
political/ideological positions, challenges popular definitions/misconceptions of
| | | | | | |
rural areas, and they use their own research to advocate for social and economic
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
change
-Scholars who fall into a more traditional scholarship/researcher role (they
| | | | | | | | | |
research, collect and analyze data, write up research)
| | | | | | |
John Eason & Ruth Wilson Gilmore - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Challenge the
| | | | | | | | | |
traditional role and have set the stage for rural scholars
| | | | | | | | |
-Going to communities, experiencing vulnerabilities, living the experiences,
| | | | | | | |
working with people in rural communities to understand their positions and
| | | | | | | | | | |
needs, using their work to advocate for social and economic change
| | | | | | | | | |
-Weren't the first rural scholars, but were the first to do first hand research and
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
use it in a manner that brought about an actual difference
| | | | | | | | | |
-collaborative research |
The Prison Fix - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Bringing prisons to rural communities as a
| | | | | | | | | | |
solution to fix their economies because they were thought to be stable industries
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Carceral expansion (both physically and ideologically) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | |
Carceral ideologies are those that center and concentrate crime control, criminal
| | | | | | | | | | |
,justice, law and order, and punishment ideologies within seemingly non-carceral
| | | | | | | | | |
institutions |
-Police in schools, welfare compliance officers, specialized courts focused on
| | | | | | | | | | |
homelessness, etc. | |
|-Ex. Watercolor on a canvas: concentrated in certain places but colors can bleed
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
into other areas) → carceral expansion focused on increase in prisons but is seen
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
in social institutions that did not initially have social control intentions
| | | | | | | | | |
Prison industrial complex - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a set of bureaucratic, political,
| | | | | | | | | |
and economic interests that encourage increased spending on imprisonment,
| | | | | | | | |
regardless of the actual need | | | |
Institutional dynamic in which vested economic interests actively promote prison
| | | | | | | | | |
construction and a punitive system of criminal justice
| | | | | | |
-Politicians exploit crime legislation to secure votes
| | | | | |
| -EX. Reagan Administration- War On Drugs
| | | | | |
-Private companies seek profits by serving or operating prisons
| | | | | | | |
-Rural town leaders use prisons for economic development
| | | | | | |
Prison boom - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Exponential building of prisons from 1970+,
| | | | | | | | |
heightened police presence, arrests, legal institutions, use of plea bargains, more
| | | | | | | | | | | |
courts being developed, more lawyers, etc.
| | | | |
Prison proliferation (rapid increase) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Exponential building
| | | | | | | |
of prisons, heightened police presence, arrests, legal institutions, use of plea
| | | | | | | | | | |
bargains, etc. | |
-Even though crime has generally been declining
| | | | | |
-Mass incarceration and tough on crime policies
| | | | | | |
, -Supply of prisoners and demand on prisons
| | | | | |
Economic "anchors" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Rural communities need an industry
| | | | | | | |
to ground the types of jobs they want to offer to their people
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Economic Growth Model/Solutions/Growth Machine - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | |
Economic growth model: Private investment → Increased jobs and payrolls →
| | | | | | | | | | |
Larger tax base → Increase revenues/reduced tax rates → improved mix of public
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
services and taxes | |
-Localities that attract new residents or businesses increase government revenue,
| | | | | | | | |
|which allows them to provide more services or reduces taxes
| | | | | | | | | |
-In addition job growth provides new opportunities for the poor and unemployed
| | | | | | | | | | | |
and it generates competition of workers which can increase wage growth
| | | | | | | | | |
-Economic growth solutions force rural communities to rely on big industries that
| | | | | | | | | | | |
may not be sustainable (hence, prison contracts and prison proliferation)
| | | | | | | | |
Solutions:
-government safety net programs and | | | | |
-Localities that attract new residents or businesses increase government revenue,
| | | | | | | | |
|which allows them to provide more services or reduces taxes
| | | | | | | | | |
-In addition job growth provides new opportunities for the poor and unemployed
| | | | | | | | | | | |
and it generates competition of workers which can increase wage growth
| | | | | | | | | |
Growth machine combined with environmental justice: if a LULU (prison) can save
| | | | | | | | | | |
us, we should take it to create and sustain growth
| | | | | | | | | |
-Classic growth machine models cannot account for undesirable land uses, as
| | | | | | | | | | |
they frame any economic development as PIMBY
| | | | | |
