Sociological analysis of crime and inequality

● What is the relationship between social inequality and crime? ● Do longer prison terms and/or harsher sentences reduce crime? ● What is meant by "Bait and Switch"? Are "3 Strikes Laws" reducing crime? What comprises the majority of "3 Strikes" cases? ● Is inequality on the rise or on the decline? Give some easy-to-understand examples. ● What is the relationship between earnings and education? ● What are the identifiable differences between the US and other industrialized nations that can help explain the extreme inequality in the US? ● Are there possible remedies? ● Briefly discuss the two school systems that Kozol describes. What do you think the basis of this inequality is?