The Ministry of Justice states that members of the black communities are seven times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched , three and a half times more likely to be arrested, and five times more like to be sent to prison. However, such statistics do not tell us whether members of one ethnic group are more likely than members of another group to commit an offence in the first place – they simply tell us about involvement with the criminal justice system. For example, differences in stop and search or arrest rates may simply be due to policing strategies or to discrimination by individual officers, while differences in rates of imprisonment may be the result of courts handing down harsher sentences to minorities. In addition to statistics on the ethnicity of those individuals who are involved with the criminal justice system, we can call on two other important sources of statistics
Additionally, these figures may be this high, due to women being more likely to go to the doctor when there is something wrong with their health, whereas men will put off going to the doctors. The graph below, taken from The Daily Mail, shows ‘The Percentage of Population Using Mental Health Medication’ in America, which supports the argument that women are more likely to develop a mental health disorder compared to men. P3 P3 P3 P3 Those who are in a higher social status or social class, tend to live longer than those who are in the working class, or lower class. According to Equality Human Rights (2014), chapter 6 states that ‘Men in the highest socio-economic class can expect to live around 7 years longer than men in the lower groups. For women, the gap is the same.’ An argument for this set of statistics may be that those in a high social class can afford private healthcare, therefore having access to top medical
Introducing an ally who resisted the majority caused conformity levels to drop sharply (5%). The presence of an ally makes an individual feel more confident and better able to stand up to the majority. Asch also discovered that people are better able to resist pressure to conform if the decision has a moral dimension. For Asch’s participants, the costs of conforming were not particularly great given the insignificance of the task. However if the behaviour is judged as immoral such as joining others in cheating there is less evidence of conformity as the costs are perceived as greater.
With all of these types of disadvantages on their side they tend to receive more time than non-minorities. Non-minorities tend to be able to get lawyer and property bonds. According to a research done on Latinos/as in the criminal justice system it provided 24 findings that the criminal and juvenile justice system discriminated against Latinos/as (Urbina, 2007). Sentencing is affected by ethnicity that benefits Caucasians over any other minorities and penalizes Latino defendants (Steffensmeier and Demuth 2000; see also Urbania 2003b). (Urbina, 2007).
There is a higher distribution of males in the sworn personnel i.e. the chiefs, sub chiefs, lieutenants, captains, sergeants, corporals and officers category. On the other hand, women distribution is higher in the non-sworn personnel category i.e. officials/ executives, professionals, technicians and clericals. This bias in the two categories of personnel has led to a gender discrimination aspect to the department where males are put in active duty and females relegated to a more administrative role.
However, materials used were more familiar to males than females and therefore the role of confidence may have had an effect on the conformity levels of females. Another issue is that there are cultural differences. People from collectivist
Lastly, it has been well documented within the oppression framework that the law is biased against the lower class. The notion of “triple jeopardy” argues that the African American woman is thrice victimized by the aforementioned biases (Russell-Brown, 2004, p. 130). With this in mind, this paper seeks to explain the subjugated position of African American women within the criminal justice using the major themes
The treatment in the criminal justice system varies from male to female. Females are more prone to give out more lenient sentences as opposed to male judges. Part of that is because females are more understanding and nurturing than men are. For example with a female judge you may receive life in prison instead of the death penalty. On the other hand, with a male judge, the chances of receive the full punishment for a particular crime is much higher.
I’ll start off with General Strain theory, it states that strain can be caused by failure to achieve positively valued stimuli, the loss of positively valued stimuli, and presentation of negative stimuli. In Compelled to Crime, the African American battered women were overwhelmed with strain, in response they acted out by committing an array of different crimes. The reasoning behind this could be because of their low levels of social support. The African American battered women did not have a lot of support; they were most of the time cut off from their families and friends. Another example of how strain applies to these women can be seen in Agnew’s writings when he said “Data suggest that child abuse and neglect negative school experiences, chronic unemployment, and residence in deprived communities are important causes sate anger and that such anger explains much of the effective of strains on crime.” (Agnew, Chp.
Slavery was so victimized that it still affects the society to the extent that black people blame the whites , and white people still agree that black people need to be slaves. Until this day there is some sort of prejudice and rivalry due to different