- Watch the Stanford Prison Experiment (2 Hours)
- Write a discussion post about how institutionalizing plays out in the experiment. What do you think about how the inmates and officers behaved? What do you know about how institutionalization that might explain these behaviors? Do you think these behaviors are justified because of institutionalization, and why? How might we avoid these behavioral transformations?
Watch Michelle Alexander’s Ted Talk book “The New Jim Crow” aims to stimulate a conversation about the criminal justice system’s role in creating and
Watch Michelle Alexander’s Ted Talk book “The New Jim Crow” aims to stimulate a conversation about the criminal justice system’s role in creating and perpetuating racial hierarchy (or a racial caste-like system) in the United States. She raises compelling arguments about institutional racism, mass incarceration and felon disenfranchisement in the




