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Soc. 1: Final Study Guide
Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
1. Why does Angela Y. Davis want us to think about the obsolescence of the prison?
2. What is “a crime by any other name”? Why does Reiman ask, “What’s in a name?”
3. What does Reiman mean by likening the criminal justice system to a “mirror”? What kind of
mirror does he think it is? (Please understand the two deceptions on page 66-67).