According to official statistics, there are some significant ethnic differences in the likelihood of being involved in the criminal justice system. Black people, and to a lesser extent Asians are over represented in the sample. For example black people make up just 12.8% of the population, but 11% of the prison population and Asians make up 4.7% of the population, but 6% of the prison population. By contrast, white people are under-represented at all stages of the criminal justice process. 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.
The main concept behind these explications is that different races are faced with their own unique types of strains. These types of strains are economic, family related, educational, communal, and discriminatory. All of these strains have some level of interconnectivity with one another that can lead to people committing criminal acts. The reading mainly focuses on the African American and White racial groups. Even though all of these strains have an influence on the racial differences in crime, I believe that the community contributes a lot to these differences.
The Comparison Between Prison and Slavery by John Dewar Gleissner The fairly new term, "mass incarceration," means that the U.S. has 2.2 million prisoners, more than any country in the world. A greater percentage of the U.S. population is in prison than in any other nation. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population and almost 25% of the world's prisoners. The entire U.S. correctional population, including those on probation, on parole and awaiting trial, is about 7.3 million Americans. These eye-popping numbers came about for many reasons: mandatory minimum sentences, three-strikes legislation, illegal drugs, gangs, immorality in all its modern forms, the war on drugs, the decline of marriage and families, high rates of recidivism, incarceration of the mentally ill, the decline of capital punishment, problems with the criminal justice system and all the forces pushing tough crime policies.
My expectation for this research is to have an in-depth knowledge of why more black people are in prison compared to any racial demographics in the United States. What l will be interested in learning will be the statistics of the prison population with regards to prisoners under jurisdiction, inmates held in custody, total inmates in custody and the total incarcerated population. I will also focus my attention on number of prisoners admitted to and released from prison each year; imprisonment rates for prisoners sentenced to more than 1 year; age, race and sex distributions; offense distributions; and the number of non-U.S. citizens and inmates under age 18 held in custody. One issue that l would also like to address is what becomes of you when you commit crime and get punished for it; does your problems stops there, the answer is no. So how do we as a society rehabilitates people who have paid their debt to society when we don’t give them a second chance at life; because the moment you are labeled a felon, it follows you for the rest of
Judge Marvin Arrington, a black judge in Atlanta, confirms that in Atlanta, African-Americans are 54 percent of the population, but are responsible for 100 percent of homicide, 95 percent of rape, 94 percent of robbery, 84 percent of aggravated assault, and 93 percent of burglary. Source: APD Uniform Crime Reports, Apr 2011 to Apr 2012. The real problem is the moral structure deterioration so prevalent around the country, not the skin pigmentation of our citizens. It is sad that more of our black citizens are not more upset about the realities of these statistics as the black citizens seem to be suffering the most acutely as
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with about 2.3 million people in prison. According to Vitanna.org’s statistics, an estimated one million of these prisoners are African American. 12.3 percent of the population is black, yet over 43 percent of America’s prisoners are black. This disparity is certainly unnatural, seeing as how African Americans are no more likely to be criminals than whites. Black men are overrepresented in prisons because of the unfortunately common stereotype that they are all remorseless criminals.
Racism is very apparent in our criminal justice system as well. Drug laws, prison sentences, and police contact disproportionately affect African-Americans in a negative way. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report of 2009, the percentage of arrestees in metropolitan areas of African-American race was 24.2% with Whites making up74.4% and the remaining made up of Pacific Islander, Asian, Alaskan American Native, or Native American. This shows a disproportionate rate of offending among African-Americans seeing as according to 2009 U.S. Census data they only make up 13.6% of the United States population. Why are the rates disproportionate?
By doing so the school district, whether unintentional or not, alienated qualified teachers of other races. This includes the majority race of the students, in favor of white teachers. One major example of institutional racism is in our legal system. According to the FBI Homicide Table 3, in 2010 there were 4,849 white offenders convicted of murder and 5,770 black offenders convicted of murder. Considering African Americans make up only 13.1% of the American population, these numbers are astonishing.
The social and economic disparities in criminal justice have faces and many are that of color. African Americans are more likely than others to have social histories that include poverty, exposure to neighborhood violence, and exposure to crime-prone role models. For instance, African American children with no prior admissions to the juvenile justice system were six times more likely to be incarcerated in a public facility that Caucasian children with the same background that were charged with the same offense. A major study sponsored by the Department of Justice in the early 1980’s noted that juvenile justice system processing appears to be counterproductive, placing minority children at a disproportionally greater risk of subsequent incarceration (Fessenden,
4/20/12 Legal Problems of The Poor M,W,F 1:25-2:15 Assignment #3 Please discuss the role that race, gender, and economic status play in the administration of justice, the enforcement of the law, and the perception of the legal system among people who are poor. Please describe what can be done to bring about a greater level of credibility of the justice system. Though many may not notice, race, gender, and economic status play a very important role in many areas of society such as the administration of justice, and the enforcement of the law. Blacks and whites play two completely roles in these areas, as do men and women. Also economic status can determine the kind of treatment you receive when dealing with these two areas of