This helps to define why some individuals with similar strains commit crimes and why others chose legal manners in which they deal with their strains and emotions. General Strain Theory can help to explain any act that is considered deviant by society, and carries with it some sort of punishment, either formally or informally (Agnew, 2006). Failure to achieve
Hate crime is a crime when a harm done to a person because that persons belongs to a particular group. Sometimes like in the case of hate crime legislation there is a dispute about whether the hate crime legislation are to be justified in liberal societies. In her article “Why liberals should hate ’hate crime legislation’” Heidi M. Hurd define hate crimes from a different point of view. She claims that the hate crime is based on a character which is unacceptable in liberal societies, she discusses the difference between the hate and bias crimes and other crimes as from the perspective of punishment and the moral and political impact that this base has. Hate crimes penalties are greater than other crimes because of two main reasons first is that they are target to communities and second the individual who commit hate crime need to have greater culpability then those who commit a regular crime, based on those two reasons legislating a hate crime on character the liberal society might lose of its features.
This section is also consists of two parts. The first part is racial discrimination against blacks by the whites while the second section is racial discrimination against blacks by the blacks. 1 - A background of racial discrimination in the United States: Racism in the United States has been a major issue ever since the colonial era and the slave era. Legally sanctioned racism imposed a heavy burden on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latin Americans. European Americans (particularly Anglo Americans) were privileged by law in matters of literacy, immigration, voting rights, citizenship, land acquisition, and criminal procedure over periods of time extending from the 17th century to the 1960s.
Hate crimes are still very real in today’s world. There is more than one type of hate crime in the United States. Hate crimes are attacks against a person, property or even the society and are because of racism. Even though the Civil Rights Act was passed the people are still acting out and violating harmless victims because of racism. It is surprising the statistics even for 2012 of the violate attacks against the victims.
c.) The varying interpretations indicate the use of “presentism” throughout the periods in which the affair has been analyzed. During the civil rights movement, use of the term “blacks” to describe the slave population was seen as one of the main points of insensitivity, because African Americans of the time had such little cultural footing in America. After the 60s, students began to reflect on Jefferson’s unwillingness to see integration as an option, because African Americans were still struggling to integrate after the civil rights movements. Modern day, the concern lies in Jefferson’s blatant stereotyping of slaves as lesser and even as “musical”. These all reflect the current ideals of the time in
Slavery, which was a major uproar from colonial America to the civil war, is the racial epidemic of the enslavement of people for money and cheap labor with extensive abuses. The question that could be asked is were the slaves dignified, did they still keep their dignity? The word dignity is the conducting of self-respect as a person sees himself or herself rather than, how others perceive that person. Slavery has been around for years and slaves have been treated unfairly for countless of reasons and situations. Did they still keep their self-respect?
To support his thesis, he pointed out that any lower social class was sent to do manual labor. Some however, were simply better and cheaper to have as slave laborers, such as the African Slaves. (Williams 10) Racism was simply a consequence of slavery so that people could justify the idea of employing and owning slaves. For many years, historians and sociologists have debated the relationship between racism and slavery. Some contend that slavery caused and perpetuated racism, while others argue that racism caused and perpetuated slavery.
The idea behind this research is to try and point out some of the disparities in sentencing, and possibly offer some potential ways to reduce the problem. “Racial disparity in sentencing, historical representation of current biases, plea bargaining and racial profiling are all factors contributing to the current over-representation of minorities in the judicial system, further threatening the African American community and weakening the family. Aggregate data and statistics compiled supports the assumption that African Americans are disproportionately subjected to conditions such as racial profiling, traffic stops leading to searches and seizures yielding minor offenses that lead to incarceration, rather than probation or rehabilitation. Further, they are given much longer, disparate prison sentencing than white offenders under similar circumstances. These systematic disparate treatments contribute to a dysfunctional community and lead to the socioeconomic destruction of the African American family infrastructure.” (Coulson-Clark, et.
In order to explore the question further, I have researched the background of slavery and why it began. I looked at How did American slavery begin? By E. Countryman. It explores the origins of slavery and how slaves were treated and viewed by other people in society. I also looked at Arrogance of race: historical perspectives on slavery, racism and social inequality by G.M.
This is a day that will forever be burned in the minds of not only Americans, but other cultures and races across the world. A random act of violence (of a target) can have a few different levels. This was a hate crime that not only affected Caucasians, but races from all over the world, and once other races were affected; there was no taking back the damage that had been done. When referencing the factors that serve as victimization many different levels come to mind. If the hate crime is sexual orientation based, the factor(s) would be if the victim is LGBTQ, and with the number of individuals having issues with LGBTQ, the number of crimes is on the rise.