Just Mercy and Deviance

Please take a self assessment and look it over before we begin the discussion.

1.  What are examples of how deviance/crime is relative (to time, place and perception)?

2.  What are examples of how the criminal justice system stigmatizes and labels individuals as deviant? Who gets this label?

Here is a link to Equal Justice Initiative and how stigma affects individuals leaving prison.

3.  Similarities to Saints and Roughnecks?

Criminal Justice System:

Here is a link to Antonio Nunez's Story.


Here is a link to Trina Garnett's story and here is a video about her:


Here is what Equal justice Initiative says about mental illness in prison.