Black men are 8 times more likely to be put in prison then White men. When it comes to death sentences, 74% of them are given to Black men. Another thing I found when looking for information for this hub was horrible. I found studies that were done about African Americans. Since there have been several studies, this hub is only going to focus on one of them.
Using Material from Item B and elsewhere, assess sociological explanations of ethnic differences in offending and victimisation. According to official statistics there are significant ethnic differences in the likelihood of being involved in the criminal justice system. Black and Asians are overrepresented in the system. For example black people make up 2.8% of the population, but 11% of the prison population. Contrastingly whites are underrepresented.
It this paper the subject to be analyzed is the racial disparity in correctional populations and the reasons why it happens. Statistics At the end of 2005, there were 1,525,924 persons incarcerated in state and federal prisons; 40% of these inmates were black, 35% were white, and 20% were Hispanic (Garland, Spohn, & Wodahl p. 4). The national incarceration rate for Whites is 412 per 100,000 residents, compared to 2,290 for African Americans, and 742 for Hispanics (Mauer & King, July, p. 4). The typical inmate in the United States prison systems consist of Black males between 25 and 29 making up two filths of the prison populations in 2005 whereas, Hispanic males make up 2.6% and White males consist of only 1.1% (Garland, Spohn, & Wodahl, Fall). The average Black male born today has a one in three chance that he will be incarcerated in his lifetime and Black women are also, have a higher chance than White women (Mauer & King, July, p. 1).
Stereotypes Three stereotypes that I have encountered in my life have had to do with African Americans. I myself am an African American male. One of the most common stereotypes that I have encounter was African American males are violent. African American males are commonly associated with crime, even though it is proven by the FBI that the majority of crimes in the United States are caused by Caucasians and Hispanics. According to the FBI, in 2008 there were a total of 10,662,206 arrests in the United States, 69.2% of the people arrested were Caucasians, 28.3 % African Americans, 1.3% American Indians or Alaskan Natives and 1.1% Asian or Pacific Islanders.
How far has the importance of Martin Luther King’s role in the Civil Rights movement been exaggerated? In the 1950s and 60s, black Americans were victim to severe and brutal racist discrimination, particularly in the southern states, where segregation was “de Jure” ( by law), the ‘Jim-Crow’ laws made sure that everyday facilities such as buses, parks and schools were segregated, with different services for black and white people and where black people were violently threatened to prevent them from voting (for example in Mississippi, any black people who tried to vote faced intimidation and even lynching , this resulted in only five per cent of the black population there registering to vote.). In the north, things were a little better, in the sense that there were laws in place to prevent the amount of legal discrimination of that in the south, however, the discrimination in the North was De Facto, these laws could not control people’s racist attitudes and racism was still an everyday experience for black people; for example in the ghettos, discrimination in employment opportunities resulted in the formation of ‘Ghettos’ where, in some parts, black Americans lived in poverty stricken communities together, in the only housing that they could afford, shabby houses in dire conditions. Throughout the country, black Americans were not given the same educational and employment opportunities as white people and they lived in fear, not only of the daily racist abusers, but also from the police officers who were supposed to protect them, in fact the police often took part in racist killings and white juries almost always acquitted whites of killing blacks. However, amongst all this racism, brave Americans emerged who struggled in the fight for black civil rights and an end to this racism, one of these people being the Baptist minister, Martin Luther King.
New York has been known for its crime rate, with a population of 17,999,657 and 99.8% of police departments reporting, there were 761 murders in 2009. The biggest difference between the crime rates in the two cities in the size of population. Even though New York has more murders, the numbers have steadily been reduced thanks to zero tolerance policy in New York. Between 1990 and 1997, the number of murders in New York has dropped from 2,262 to 767 which is 66% drop in the murder rate. In 1997 there were actually the fewest murder numbers in New York since 1967.
Society has a misconception that a typical criminal is a young black working class male. Statistics show that black people count for 2.8% of the population in the UK but 11% in prison. Furthermore, Asians make up 4.7% in the UK but 6% in prison terms. The question is asked if a racist police force is behind such different statistics. Moreover, further statistics show that black people are seven times more likely and Asians twice as likely to stopped by police compared to their white counterparts.
Megan Louise Jones Eng. 152 Due 03/19/2012 Racist Americas we are. Although its been over 50 years sense the civil rights movement as Americans we are even more than ever then we have been is the past racist. Even though the America has elected the first black president, Barack Obama, he has received the most death threats than any other president in US history this is because he is black. Americans are so racist we don’t even know it; we say that we are not.
Research shows that minorities are overrepresented on death row; that murders involving white victims are more often sentenced to death, while murders involving black victims are almost never sentenced to death. Even though African Americans account for less than 20% of America’s population, they account for over 50% of death row inmates. Some people argue that there are no racial disparities in the death penalty; that more blacks are on death row because more blacks commit crimes that are punishable by death. I believe that more blacks are on death row, not because they deserve it, but because the majority of the prosecuting attorneys that request this sentence, and the majority of jurors that vote for this sentence are predominantly
Jatorin Jackson African American Studies Dr. Bridges April 2012, 29th Aids and HIV in the black Community HIV & AIDS: Rising Infection Rate in the African American Community.African Americans who live in low-income communities are more likely to engage in unprotected sexual activities than those who live in higher-income communities. When the epidemic finally reached noticeable proportions in the early 1980s, a disease that knows no gender, racial, or class boundaries has created a devastating impact on society. This disease has afflicted society in virtually epidemic proportions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, there are an estimated 1 million Americans infected with AIDS and 40,000-80,000